AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY

AMENDMENTS OF THE CANBERRA BUILDING REGULATIONS

EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM

No. 6 of 1970

	These Regulations repeal regulation 47 which binds the Department of the Interior to observing that the siting of a side wall of a detached or semi-detached dwelling should not be closer to the line of an allotment than six feet.

	The purpose of repealing the regulation is to enable the Department of the Interior to issue Certificates of Compliance where the National Capital Development Commission sites a building at a distance less than six feet from the line of the allotment.  The National Capital Development Commission is responsible for the external design and siting of buildings.

	The amendment also corrects a typographical error by substituting the word “regulation” for the word “section” in sub-regulation (1.) of regulation 38.