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  <date date="2025-10-28T11:00:00+10:30" />
  <sessionName>Fifty-Fifth Parliament, First Session (55-1)</sessionName>
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  <sessionNum>1</sessionNum>
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      <name>Highways (Works for Residential Developments) Amendment Bill</name>
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        <bill id="r5367" referenceid="bde3b2d6e0d64f9b9dc03d0d2566fe5d" uid="d306764a6907497f9b7600f4238f25a5">
          <name>Highways (Works for Residential Developments) Amendment Bill</name>
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      <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000851" referenceid="bde3b2d6e0d64f9b9dc03d0d2566fe5d">
        <heading>Highways (Works for Residential Developments) Amendment Bill</heading>
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        <name>Final Stages</name>
        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000852">
          <heading>Final Stages</heading>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000853">The Legislative Council agreed to the bill with the amendments indicated by the following schedule, to which amendments the Legislative Council desires the concurrence of the House of Assembly:</text>
        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000854">
          <inserted>No. 1. Clause 3, page 3, line 14 [clause 3(4), inserted subsection (9a)]—After 'may' insert ', with the approval of the Minister,'</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000855">
          <inserted>No. 2. Clause 3, page 3, line 16 [clause 3(4), inserted subsection (9a)(a)]—Before 'the council' insert 'in the circumstances referred to in subsection (9ab)—'</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000856">
          <inserted>No. 3. Clause 3, page 3, line 17 [clause 3(4), inserted subsection (9a)(b)]—Delete 'with the approval of the Minister—'</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000857">
          <inserted>No. 4. Clause 3, page 3, after line 18 [clause 3(4), after inserted subsection (9a)]—Insert:</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000858">
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            <inserted>(9ab)&amp;#x9;For the purposes of subsection (9a)(a), the circumstances are where—</inserted>
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        </text>
        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000859">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;the State Planning Commission issued a certificate for the division of land under section 138 of the <term>Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016</term> in relation to development in the designated residential development area approved under that Act; and</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000860">
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            <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;in connection with the issuing of the certificate, the council advised the State Planning Commission that—</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000861">
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            <inserted>(i)&amp;#x9;any common driveway or private road (including all access points to and from the common driveway or private road) set out in the approved plans for the development had been constructed; or</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000862">
          <item sublevel="4">
            <inserted>(ii)&amp;#x9;the applicant for the development had entered into a binding arrangement, supported by adequate security, with the council for the satisfaction of (among other things) the requirement to construct the common driveway or private road; and</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000863">
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            <inserted>(c)&amp;#x9;the advice referred to in paragraph (b) was incorrect.</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000864">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>(9ac)&amp;#x9;Before giving an approval under subsection (9a)(a), the Minister must—</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000865">
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            <inserted>(a)&amp;#x9;give notice to the council for the district in which the area is located of the proposed approval (which must set out details of the circumstances referred to in subsection (9ab) in relation to the development to which the proposed approval relates) inviting the council to comment on the proposed approval within a period of not less than 30 days from receipt of the notice specified by the Minister; and</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000866">
          <item sublevel="3">
            <inserted>(b)&amp;#x9;take into account any response received from the council.</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000867">
          <inserted>No. 5. Clause 3, page 3, after line 31 [clause 3(4), after inserted subsection (9e)]—Insert:</inserted>
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            <inserted>(9f)&amp;#x9;Any expenses and interest recovered or recoverable by the Commissioner under subsection (9a) in the circumstances referred to in subsection (9ab) may, if the relevant council considers that any error or omission in advice referred to in that subsection occurred as a result of an act or omission of the relevant developer or another person, be recovered by the council from that relevant developer or other person.</inserted>
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        <page num="13751" />
        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000869">
          <inserted>No. 6. Clause 3, page 4, after line 3 [clause 3(5), after inserted subsection (15)]—Insert:</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000870">
          <item sublevel="2">
            <inserted>(15a)&amp;#x9;If the Commissioner varies a plan to open or close a road in connection with prescribed works carried out by the Commissioner for a development in a designated residential development area, the Commissioner must, as soon as reasonably practicable after completion of the prescribed works, vary the plan so that it is in accordance with the plans and specifications for the road approved in the development authorisation.</inserted>
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        <text id="20251028d4acba7cef70416bb0000871">
          <inserted>No. 7. Clause 3, page 4, line 31 [clause 3(4), inserted subsection (19)(c)]—Delete 'appropriate' and substitute 'reasonably necessary'</inserted>
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