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409: Financial contributions for developments
or “Rules for collecting money or land from people building or dividing property when there's no plan for the area”
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“Rules for building projects that started before the new law came into effect stay the same”

If you told a local council about a development before this law came into effect, the old rules still apply to your development. These old rules are in Parts 20 and 21 of the Local Government Act 1974. You would have told the council about your development using section 293(1) of that same Act. This means the new law doesn’t change anything for your development if you already told the council about it before the new law started.

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Part 15 Transitional provisions
Subdivision and development

410Existing developments

  1. Parts 20 and 21 of the Local Government Act 1974 shall continue to apply to any development that, before the commencement of this Act, is notified to a territorial authority under section 293(1) of the Local Government Act 1974 as if this Act had not been enacted.