Australian Capital Territory

Land (Planning and Environment) (Remission of Change of Use Charge) Policy Direction 2004 (No 1)*

Disallowable instrument DI2004-209

made under the

Land (Planning and Environment) Regulations 1992
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I REVOKE instrument No DI2003-250 and under regulations 21 and 32 of the
Land (Planning and Environment) Regulations 1992 (the Regulations) 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 Planning and Land Authority must entirely remit the change of use
charge for the types of lease variation or consolidation or subdivision
referred to in Schedule 1.

2.	This disallowable instrument commences from 1 July 2002.

Simon Corbell
Minister for Planning
7 September 2004

	

SCHEDULE 1 TO DISALLOWABLE INSTRUMENT DI2004-209

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 2003. 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.