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Enforcement and other matters - Enforcement - Infringement offences

262: Infringement offences

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"Breaking planning rules: what you need to pay"

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The Planning Bill proposes new rules about infringement offences. You will find the details of these offences in sections 263 to 269. The bill explains what an infringement fee and an infringement offence are. The infringement fee is the amount of money you have to pay for an infringement offence. This amount will be decided by regulations made under section 281. You can think of an infringement offence as something you do that breaks the rules. The Planning Bill says that an infringement offence is something that is specified in regulations made under section 281. These regulations will help decide what actions are considered infringement offences. You can find more information about this in the proposed regulations.

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Enforcement: Infringement offences

262Infringement offences

  1. In sections 263 to 269,—

    infringement fee, in relation to an infringement offence, means the amount fixed by regulations made under section 281 as the infringement fee for the offence

      infringement offence means an offence specified as such in regulations made under section 281.