New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RURAL FIRES ACT 1997 - SECT 124A

124A Application of Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

(1) An environmental planning instrument made under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 cannot prohibit, require development consent for or otherwise restrict the doing of any emergency fire fighting act.

(2) Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 does not apply to or in respect of any emergency fire fighting act.

(3) A development control order within the meaning of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 does not have effect to the extent that it prevents or interferes with the doing of any emergency fire fighting act.

(4) Subsection (1) applies to an environmental planning instrument made before or after the commencement of this section.