Victorian Current Acts

PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT ACT 1987 - SECT 4AA

    (1)     The Department Head of the Department—

        (a)     must not act inconsistently with any part of a Yarra Strategic Plan that is expressed to be binding on the Department Head when performing a function or duty or exercising a power under this Act in relation to Yarra River land; and

        (b)     must have regard to the Yarra protection principles, and those parts of a Yarra Strategic Plan not expressed to be binding on the Department Head, when performing a function or duty or exercising a power under this Act in relation to the Yarra Strategic Plan area that may affect Yarra River land.

S. 4AA(2) substituted by No. 43/2021 s. 117.

    (2)     Subsection (1) does not apply to the performance of a function or the exercise of a power by the Department Head of the Department in relation to—

        (a)     a declared project within the meaning of the Major Transport Projects Facilitation Act 2009 ; or

        (b)     a Suburban Rail Loop project within the meaning of the Suburban Rail Loop Act 2021 .

S. 4AB inserted by No. 17/2018 s. 5.