(1)  This section applies to heritage works for which a minor works approval has not been issued.

(2)  For all purposes –

(a) the heritage works are taken to be a development under the Planning Act; and

(b) the relevant planning scheme or relevant special planning order, if it does not do so, is taken to require a permit for that development; and

(c) the relevant planning scheme or relevant special planning order, if it does not do so, is taken to specify that development as being of a kind which a planning authority has a discretion to refuse or permit.