Cumerlong Holdings Pty Ltd v Dalcross Properties Pty Ltd & Ors [2010] NSWCA 214

Reported Decision: 175 LGERA 433

New South Wales Court of Appeal

CITATION: Cumerlong Holdings Pty Ltd v Dalcross Properties Pty Ltd & Ors [2010] NSWCA 214

HEARING DATE(S): 29 July 2010

JUDGMENT DATE: 2 September 2010

JUDGMENT OF: Tobias JA at 1; McColl JA at 46; Handley AJA at 47

DECISION: (a) Appeal dismissed. (b) The appellant to pay the first and second respondents' costs of the appeal up to and including 11 July 2010 and to pay the third respondent's costs of the appeal from and including 12 July 2010.

CATCHWORDS: ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING – development control – planning instruments – local environmental plan – Ku-ring-gai LEP 194 – interpretation – whether approval of Governor required under s 28(3) of EPA Act to provisions of LEP 194 that effected change of zoning – whether provisions of LEP 194 provide that regulatory instrument specified in LEP 194 shall not apply to any particular development STATUTORY INTERPRETATION – extrinsic material – dictionaries – definition of "provide", "provision" and "tenor" - STATUTORY INTERPRETATION – principles – context reading provision in – plain and unambiguous text giving effect to – purposive approach STATUTORY INTERPRETATION – EPA Act, s 28(2) and (3) – "provide", "provision", "regulatory instrument", "specify", "tenor"

Conveyancing Act 1919 Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 Income Tax Act 1952 (UK) Interpretation Act 1987 LEGISLATION CITED: Ku-ring-gai Local Environmental Plan No 74 Ku-ring-gai Local Environmental Plan No 194 Ku-ring-gai Planning Scheme Ordinance Local Government Act 1919 Miscellaneous Acts (Planning) Repeal and Amendment Act 1979