Queensland Numbered Acts

PLANNING ACT 2016 - SECT 288

288 References to the old Act or provisions of the old Act

(1) This section applies to a reference in another Act or a document.

(2) Unless the contrary intention appears—

(a) a reference to the old Act is a reference to this Act; and

(b) a reference to a provision of the old Act is a reference to the provision of this Act that corresponds, or most closely corresponds, to the provision of the old Act; and

(c) a reference to a person or thing in column 1 of the following table is a reference to the person or thing in column 2 of the table.

	Column 1	Column 2
	Old name	New name
	an assessing authority	an enforcement authority
	a designation of land for community infrastructure	a designation
	a preliminary approval to which the old Act, section 242 applies	a variation approval
	a compliance permit	a development permit
	a compliance certificate for a subdivision plan given under the repealed Sustainable Planning Regulation 2009 , schedule 19	an approval given under section 283(2)(b)
	a notice about a request under the old Act, section 95	a notice of a local government’s decision about a request given under section 29(7) or taken to have been given under section 29(8)
	exempt development	accepted development
	self-assessable development	to the extent the development complies with all applicable codes for the self-assessable development—accepted development
	self-assessable development	to the extent the development does not comply with all applicable codes for the self-assessable development—assessable development
	a code, or other matter, against which assessable development must be assessed	an assessment benchmark
	compliance assessment	code assessment