Contents (1988 - 48)
City of Sydney Act 1988 No 48
Status information

Long title

Part 1 Preliminary

1 Name of Act
2 Commencement
3 Principal Act and traffic and transport legislation
4 Definitions
4A Sydney Central Business District

Part 2

5–13(Repealed)

Part 3 Elections

Division 1 Enrolment for elections for the City Council

14 Definitions
15 Right to be enrolled as an elector
16 Provisions relating to right to be enrolled as an elector
16A Partnerships
17 Roll of electors
17A, 18 (Repealed)
18A Electoral Commissioner to prepare roll of non-resident owners and roll of occupiers and ratepaying lessees
18B Enrolment letter
18C Costs in relation to electoral rolls
19, 19A (Repealed)

Division 2 Voting at elections for the City Council

20, 21 (Repealed)
22 Compulsory voting

Division 3 Election of Lord Mayor

23 Election by electors
23A Lord Mayor must also be candidate for election as councillor

Division 4 Council poll or constitutional referendum

24 Applicable provisions of Principal Act and this Part
25–30 (Repealed)

Part 4 Planning in the City of Sydney

Division 1 Preliminary

31 Definitions
32 Relationship of this Part and other provisions to Planning Act

Division 2 Constitution of the Central Sydney Planning Committee

33 The Planning Committee
34 Members of Planning Committee
35 Provisions relating to members, procedure etc of the Planning Committee
36 Access to records etc of City Council
37 Subcommittees
38 Delegation

Division 3 Environmental planning functions of the Planning Committee

39 Planning Committee’s role in planning controls
40 Determination of major development applications
41 Consultation with Minister or public authority
42 Minister or public authority may make representations
43 Representations to be taken into consideration
44 Validity of consents
45 Section 79B of the Planning Act not to apply

Division 4 Other functions

46 Definition
47 Nomination of authorisations by applicant
48 Decision by the Planning Committee as to nomination
49 Decision by the Planning Committee to deal with an authorisation under this Division
50 Determination of matter by the Planning Committee
51 Directions by the Minister

Part 4A Central Sydney Traffic and Transport Committee

Division 1 Preliminary

51A Object of Part
51B Definitions
51C Relationship of Part to other Acts

Division 2 Establishment of the Central Sydney Traffic and Transport Committee

51D Central Sydney Traffic and Transport Committee
51E Area of operations and ambit of powers of CSTTC
51F Status of CSTTC
51G Members of CSTTC
51H Functions of CSTTC
51I Subcommittees
51J Delegation of CSTTC’s functions

Division 3 Powers of CSTTC

51K Excluded matters
51L Sydney CBD roads authorities to notify CSTTC of proposal to carry out road work and traffic control work
51M Sydney CBD parking authorities to notify CSTTC of proposal to carry out certain parking schemes
51N Planning proposals having a significant impact on traffic and transport in the Sydney CBD
51O Access to records etc of roads and parking authorities
51P Disputes between CSTTC and Sydney CBD roads and parking authorities
51Q Power to include or exclude areas from operational area
52 (Repealed)

Part 5 Miscellaneous

52A Amount of ordinary rate for year commencing 1 July 1995 and later years
53–56 (Repealed)
57 Savings, transitional and other provisions
58 Regulations

Part 6 Special environmental planning powers

59 Rectification of landscape—uncompleted development
60 Rectification of landscape—agreements with owners
61 Development contributions
62 Waiver of tendering requirements—conditional donations to public space improvement projects
63 Donations to public space improvement projects

 Schedule 1 The Planning Committee

 Schedule 2 Provisions relating to members and procedures of Central Sydney Traffic and Transport Committee

 Schedule 3 Savings, transitional and other provisions

Historical notes