Queensland Consolidated Acts

PLANNING ACT 2016 - SECT 69

69 Amending the development assessment rules

(1) The Minister may amend the development assessment rules.

(2) However, the amendment does not have effect until—

(a) the chief executive publishes both the amendment, and the rules as amended, on the department’s website; and

(b) the rules as amended are prescribed by regulation.

(3) Section 10 applies to amending the development assessment rules as if the rules were a State planning policy.

(4) However, section 10 (6) applies as if a reference in section 10 (6) (a) (i) to the day when the instrument was made were a reference to the day the development assessment rules as amended took effect.

(5) Also, the Minister must comply with section 10 (6) , as applied under subsection (4) , immediately after a regulation prescribes the amended development assessment rules.

(6) In addition, if the amendment is a minor amendment of the development assessment rules, section 10 does not apply to the amendment.

(7) If the Minister makes a minor amendment of the development assessment rules, immediately after a regulation prescribes the amended development assessment rules, the Minister must—

(a) publish a public notice that states—

(i) the day when the amendment took effect; and

(ii) where a copy of the amended development assessment rules may be inspected or purchased; and

(b) give a copy of the public notice, and the amended development assessment rules, to each affected local government.

(8) The regulation must state the day the amendment was published.

(9) In this section—

"minor amendment" , of the development assessment rules, has the meaning given by section 11 (3) as if the rules were a State planning instrument.