PAPUA NEW GUINEA

Physical Planning (Amendment) Act 2022

No. 55 of 2022.
Certified on: 4 OCT 2022

ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
1. Interpretation (Amendment of Section 3).
2. Control of the development and use of land (Amendment of Part VII).

AN ACT
entitled
Physical Planning (Amendment) Act 2022,
Being an Act to amend the Physical Planning Act 1989, and for related purposes,
MADE by the National Parliament to come into operation in accordance with a notice in the National Gazette by the Head of State, acting on the advice of the Minister.
1	INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT OF SECTION 3).
Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended by repealing the definition of "subdivision" and replacing it with the following:
	""subdivision" means the subdivision of an area of land or the vertical subdivision of buildings into two or more parts, whether the subdivision is effected for the purposes of convenience, transfer, partition, sale, gift, lease, mortgage, or any other purpose, and "subdivide" has a corresponding meaning;".
2	CONTROL OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF LAND (AMENDMENT OF PART VII).
Part VII of the Principal Act is amended by inserting a new section after Section 72 as follows:
	"72A. USE AND DEVELOPMENT OF LAND AND BUILDINGS WITHIN A DENSITY ZONE.
	(1) In this section "density zone" means an area that is divided into classes of low, medium and high population density zones where strata title schemes are developed.
	(2) Subject to this Part, the use and development of land and buildings under a density zone must include development plans as required under this Act.".

I hereby certify that the above is a fair print of the Physical Planning (Amendment) Act 2022, which has been made by the National Parliament.
Clerk of the National Parliament
4 OCT 2022

I hereby certify that the Physical Planning (Amendment) Act 2022, was made by the National Parliament on 23 March 2022.
Speaker of the National Parliament 
4 OCT 2022