Trusts bound, by town planning

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33929, 23 August 1975, Page 16

Trusts bound, by town planning

(Parliamentary Reporter)

WELLINGTON, August 22.

The Sale of Liquor Amendment Bill and the Licensing Trusts Amendment Bill both set out to do away with the site appeal to the Town and Country Planning Appeal Board, the Minister of Justice (Dr Finlay) said today.

“This appeal is over and above the ordinary procedures that both trusts and private licensees must follow under town-planning legislation,” Dr Finlay said.

“It has been pointed out to me that whereas the Sale of Liquor Amendment Bill leaves a provision in the existing law to the effect that nothing in the relevant section limits or affects any obligation to comply with the Town and Country Planning Act, the corresponding provision in the Licensing Trust Amendment Bill repeals that particular provision! “I do not think that there iis any difference in the effect of the two bills because. in any event, without the act’s having to say so, district licensing trusts must comply tfith the townplanning law. However, in accordance with a recom-

mendation of the Royal Commission the legislation does abrogate the requirement for a site appeal as an unnecessary duplication of town planning procedures. “This is largely a technical point, really one of a drafting nature, and the manner of its expression can be, and certainly will be, attended to during the time the bills are before the Statutes Revision Committee. “There is certainly no intention on my part that the position of district trusts should be in any way different in this respect from the position of private or other licensees, and I will make quite sure that there is no confusion on that point.”

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