Land (Planning and Environment) Regulations 1992 – Policy Direction – Remission of change of use charges No 1/2002

DI 2002-13

Under regulations 21 and 32 of the Land (Planning and Environment) Regulations 1992 (the Regulations), I revoke disallowable instrument No. 311 of 2001 and give the following policy direction for determining remissions to be given of change of use charges in the circumstances prescribed by regulations 20 and 31 respectively.

1.	The Minister must entirely remit the change of use charge for the types of lease variation or consolidation or subdivision referred to in Schedule 1.

Dated:	 9th January 2002

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Simon Corbell MLA
Minister for Planning

SCHEDULE 1 TO DISALLOWABLE INSTRUMENT 13 OF 2002

FULL remission of change of use charge
for

LEASE VARIATIONS, CONSOLIDATIONS AND SUBDIVISIONS

A full remission of change of use charge applies to the following type of lease variation:

1.	The variation of a lease, in the City West area, providing for office use to permit the use of the land for ‘residential’ purposes or ‘commercial accommodation’, provided the application to vary the lease was lodged on or before 30 June 2002.  The remission applies only to that portion of the added value attributable to a variation of the lease to allow the lessee to use the existing gross floor area of buildings on the land, but that area may include replacement buildings or parts of buildings.

In this instrument:

 “City West area” means the area shown within the bolded lines on the map below.