Victorian Numbered Regulations

PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT (FEES) INTERIM REGULATIONS 2011 (SR NO 63 OF 2011) - REG 17

r. 17

A planning authority or the Minister may wholly or in part waive or rebate the payment of a prescribed fee for considering a request to amend a planning scheme or carry out any other stage of the process for amending a planning scheme if—

        (a)     a request to amend a planning scheme, to consider submissions relating to an amendment or to approve an amendment has been withdrawn and a new request submitted; or

        (b)     the amendment combines separate items from multiple requests for an amendment to a planning scheme into one amendment; or

        (c)     in the opinion of the planning authority or the Minister—

              (i)     the amendment is intended to implement State, regional or local policy; or

              (ii)     the amendment is intended to remove errors or anomalies in the planning scheme; or

              (iii)     the request imposes on the planning authority or the Minister no appreciable burden or a lesser burden than usual for supplying that service; or

              (iv)     the amendment rewrites and restructures the planning scheme so that it may be more readily understood, without changing the planning policy; or

              (v)     the amendment implements a general review of the planning scheme, is to implement a new use or development strategy or is otherwise designed to upgrade and improve the planning scheme in the public interest; or

              (vi)     the request has been made by a person or persons standing to gain no financial benefit from the amendment or the amendment is not intended to benefit financially an owner or owners of land.