Western Australian Current Acts

COVID-19 RESPONSE AND ECONOMIC RECOVERY OMNIBUS ACT 2020 - SECT 32

32 .         Exemption from local planning scheme taken to be exemption from region planning scheme

        (1)         In this section —

        clause 78H notice means a notice made under the Planning and Development (Local Planning Schemes) Regulations 2015 Schedule 2 clause 78H(1) or (6).

        (2)         This section applies if —

            (a)         a person does something (whether before or after the day on which this section comes into operation) pursuant to an exemption from a planning requirement in a clause 78H notice in force when the thing is done; and

            (b)         the thing done contravenes a requirement or provision of a region planning scheme.

        (3)         Despite the requirement or provision of the region planning scheme, the thing done is, and is taken to always have been, done pursuant to an exemption from the requirement or provision.