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Local Government Act 2002

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You can change a development agreement if everyone who signed it agrees to the changes. This can happen at any time.

A development agreement can end in three ways:

On a specific date that’s written in the agreement.
When everyone has done everything they promised to do in the agreement.
On a date that all the people who signed the agreement choose together and write down.

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Topics:

Housing and property > Land use

Government and voting > Local councils

207E: Restrictions on use of development agreement, or

“Rules about what local councils can ask developers to do in special agreements”

208: Powers of territorial authority if development contributions not paid or made, or

“What the council can do if you don't pay for your building project”

A development agreement may be amended at any time through mutual agreement of all parties who are signatories to the agreement.
A development agreement terminates—
on a date set out in the development agreement; or
on the date on which all actions, undertakings, or obligations that were agreed to by each of the signatories to the agreement have been fulfilled; or
on a date mutually agreed in writing by all parties that are signatories to the agreement.

Notes

Section 207F: inserted, on 8 August 2014, by section 62 of the Local Government Act 2002 Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 55).