3Definitions
(1)
In this Policy:
dwelling means a room or suite of
rooms occupied or used or so constructed or adapted as to be capable of being
occupied or used as a separate domicile.
environment protection zone means
any of the following, or an equivalent land use zone:
(a)
Zone E1 National Parks and Nature
Reserves,
(b)
Zone E2 Environmental
Conservation,
(c)
Zone E3 Environmental
Management,
(d)
Zone E4 Environmental
Living.
panel means a rural lands planning
panel constituted under Part 5.
Rural
Planning Principles—see clause 7.
rural
residential zone means Zone R5 Large Lot Residential or an
equivalent land use zone.
Rural
Subdivision Principles—see clause 8.
rural
zone means any of the following, or an equivalent land use
zone:
(a)
Zone RU1 Primary Production,
(b)
Zone RU2 Rural Landscape,
(c)
Zone RU3 Forestry,
(d)
Zone RU4 Rural Small
Holdings,
(e)
Zone RU6 Transition.
State
significant agricultural land—see clause
13.
the
Act means the Environmental
Planning and Assessment Act 1979.
(2)
A reference in this Policy to land within a named
land use zone is a reference to land that, under an environmental planning
instrument made as provided by section 3.20 (2) of the Act, is within that
zone.
(3)
A reference in this Policy to land within a land
use zone that is equivalent to a named land use zone is a reference to land
that, under an environmental planning instrument that is not made as provided
by section 3.20 (2), is within a land use zone that (in the opinion of the
consent authority for the land) is equivalent to that named land use
zone.
(3A)
Despite subclause (3), in relation to
land:
(a)
to which an environmental planning instrument
that is not made as provided by section 3.20 (2) of the Act applies,
and
(b)
to which a draft environmental planning
instrument that complies with that section and that has been the subject of
community consultation also applies,
a reference in this Policy to a lot or land in a named
land use zone is a reference to a lot or land specified in such a zone in the
last such draft environmental planning instrument that was the subject of such
community consultation.
(3B)
In subclause (3A), means community consultation under section 57
of the Act or public exhibition under section 66 of the Act (as continued on
by clause 12 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment
Regulation 2000).
(4)
Notes included in this Policy do not form part of
this Policy.
cl 3: Am 2013 (706),
Sch 2.15; 2018 (68), Sch 2 [1].