31 May - 22 June 2023
The Amendment By-Law is made available for community consultation in accordance with legislative requirements.
31 May - 22 June 2023
The Amendment By-Law is made available for community consultation in accordance with legislative requirements.
July 2023
The Council receives a report of the consultation and endorses the Amendment By-Law as appropriate.
Late 2023
The Amendment By-Law is gazetted and becomes operational, with the Legislative Review Council (LRC) notified.
City of Prospect, like many local governments, has a set of by-laws in place to manage the use of public areas and regulate certain activities within the community reserves, streets, and footpaths. These by-laws serve as local rules to ensure the smooth functioning of the city and to uphold community standards and expectations.
According to legislation requirements, local governments must review their by-laws every seven years. In the case of City of Prospect, their existing set of by-laws was due to expire in December 2022. To ensure a seamless continuation of the by-laws, the city conducted an extensive review and community consultation process in the middle of last year.
The review process aimed to gather feedback and opinions from the community regarding the existing by-laws and their effectiveness in meeting the community's needs. City of Prospect drafted several new by-laws for consideration during this review.
After collecting and collating the feedback from the community, the results were presented to Council. Council reviewed its six By-laws in 2022, which took effect 1 January 2023. During the review, the Parliament of South Australia via its Legislative Review Council (LRC) evaluated and certified these six by-laws, whilst recommending that Council consider amendments to exclude gender specific language and include ‘reasonable’ direction of authorised officers.
As a By-law can only be ‘changed’ by another By-law (an amending By-law), Council agreed to adopt By-law 7 - Amendment By-law to address the LRC recommendations after seeking public feedback on the Amendment By-Law.