Australian Capital Territory

LAND (PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT) DETERMINATION OF CRITERIA FOR EXEMPTION OF SIGNS 2003

Disallowable instrument DI2003-251

made under the

Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991 Part 6 Section 282(2) and Land (Planning and Environment) Regulations 1992 Regulation 44

I REVOKE Instrument No 66 of 2001 and DETERMINE the criteria for the erection, fixing or display of a sign or advertising material on land, other than in accordance with a right to do so expressly given by a current licence granted under the Land (Planning and Environment) Act (“the Act”), or a lease.  It does not apply to signs located or proposed to be located on National Land.

Schedules 1 and 2 to this instrument set out categories of signs that are exempted from the operation of the provisions of Part 6 of the Act, subject to the criteria specified below.

The criteria are:

1.	Any sign referred to in the two attached schedules, and marked with an “E, is exempt from the operation of the provisions of Part 6 of the Act provided it complies with ‘Part C3 – Sign Policies’ of the Territory Plan.

2.	Any sign referred to in the two attached schedules, and marked with a “T”, is exempt from the operation of the provisions of Part 6 of the Act provided:

(a)	the sign complies with ‘Part C3 – Sign Policies’ of the Territory Plan;
		and
(b)	the sign is not erected, fixed or displayed for more than two weeks in any calendar year.

3.	Any sign that is the subject of an approved Signage Master Plan in accordance with ‘Part C3 – Sign Policies’ of the Territory Plan is exempt from the operation of the provisions of Part 6 of the Act.

Simon Corbell MLA
Minister for Planning

14 August 2003

Schedule 1 - Commercial Land Use Policy Areas

Schedule 2 - Land Use Policy Areas other than Commercial