APN Codex · Planning Rules
South Australia — Maralinga Tjarutja
The Rules That Govern Property in Maralinga Tjarutja
Instruments
42
Local Plan
0
Regional
1
SA
41
As At
17 Sep 2026
1Overview
The use, development, sale, lease and taxation of land in Maralinga Tjarutja are governed by the 42 instruments listed here: 1 regional plan or strategy and 41 South Australian Acts, regulations and planning instruments. Each entry records the version in force, a plain-English description and a link to the official text.
Commonwealth laws that apply across Australia, including the Building Code and foreign investment rules, are listed on the national page →
Every instrument is checked against its official publisher each month, and a new version is recorded when it takes effect. Descriptions are APN’s own and are not legal advice; the official version of each instrument prevails.
2The Planning Instrument
Planning and Design Code · In force from 10 September 2026
Provides the statewide collection of planning policies, rules and classifications that are applied to different parts of South Australia for development assessment, as required under the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016. Prepared and maintained by the State Planning Commission, it includes rules for reading and applying the Code, and its zones, subzones and overlays are spatially mapped through the SA planning database and online atlas.
Zone and overlay maps are not listed here; the PlanSA website shows the Planning and Design Code policies that apply to a particular property.
3Latest Versions
11 of the 42 instruments have a version that took effect in the 90 days to 17 September 2026. The most recent:
- 10 September 2026: Planning and Design Code. Official →
- 10 September 2026: Eyre and Western Regional Plan. Official →
- 1 September 2026: Strata Titles Regulations 2018. Official →
- 1 September 2026: Community Titles Regulations 2026. Official →
- 1 September 2026: Building Work Contractors Regulations 2026. Official →
- 13 August 2026: Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017. Official →
- 1 August 2026: Local Government Act 1999. Official →
- 30 July 2026: Real Property Act 1886. Official →
4Planning and Development
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eyre and Western Regional PlanSets the long-term land use and infrastructure plan for the Eyre and Western region of South Australia, prepared under the State Planning Commission. It aims to provide enough land for projected population and housing growth, support a wider range of housing for ageing residents, temporary workers and young families, protect the natural environment and support economic prosperity across centres such as Whyalla, Port Lincoln and Ceduna. | Regional | Regional Plan | 10 Sep 2026 | Official → |
| Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016Establishes South Australia's planning system for regulating development, together with rules on the design, construction and use of buildings and measures to support infrastructure, facilities and environments that benefit the community. It sets out the Act's objects and principles of good planning, defines planning regions, Greater Adelaide and its environment and food production areas, and repeals the Development Act 1993. | SA | Act | 30 Jul 2026 | Official → |
| Planning and Design CodeProvides the statewide collection of planning policies, rules and classifications that are applied to different parts of South Australia for development assessment, as required under the Planning, Development and Infrastructure Act 2016. Prepared and maintained by the State Planning Commission, it includes rules for reading and applying the Code, and its zones, subzones and overlays are spatially mapped through the SA planning database and online atlas. | SA | Code | 10 Sep 2026 | Official → |
| Planning, Development and Infrastructure (Accredited Professionals) Regulations 2019Establishes the accreditation scheme for professionals performing assessment functions under South Australia's planning, development and infrastructure legislation. It sets classes of accreditation and their authorised functions, from assessment managers and panel members to planning, surveying and building levels, and governs applications, conditions, duration, extension, surrender, cancellation and suspension. It also provides for a register, continuing professional development, audits, complaints, review of decisions and limits on when accredited professionals may act. | SA | Regulation | 7 Nov 2025 | Official → |
| Planning, Development and Infrastructure (Fees, Charges and Contributions) Regulations 2019Governs fees, charges and contributions under South Australia's planning, development and infrastructure legislation, including which entity receives fees for the work of assessment managers and assessment panels. It sets rules for calculating, waiving and refunding fees, suspends time periods while a fee is unpaid, and deals with varied authorisations, staged, council, excluded Crown and accredited professional development. It also provides for the open space contribution scheme, multi-unit buildings and the distribution and payment of fees. | SA | Regulation | 10 Jul 2025 | Official → |
| Planning, Development and Infrastructure (General) Regulations 2017Makes general regulations under South Australia's planning, development and infrastructure legislation, defining change of use and adding to or excluding activities from the meaning of development, including essential infrastructure, State heritage areas and data centre preparatory works. They cover regulated and significant trees, pools, annual reports, the SA planning portal, codes of conduct and assessment panel procedures. They also govern development applications, site contamination reports, referrals, public notification and the timing and notice of decisions. | SA | Regulation | 13 Aug 2026 | Official → |
| State Planning Policies for South AustraliaSets out the State Planning Policies for South Australia, the leading statement of State interests in land use planning and development under the planning, development and infrastructure legislation. The policies address integrated planning, design quality, adaptive reuse, biodiversity, climate change, housing supply and diversity, cultural heritage, primary industry, employment lands, resources, transport, energy, coasts, water, natural hazards and emissions. They take effect through Regional Plans and the Planning and Design Code, not individual application assessment. | SA | State Planning Policies | 14 Aug 2025 | Official → |
5Building and Construction
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Building Work Contractors Act 1995Regulates building work contractors and how building work is supervised in South Australia. It requires contractors to be licensed and building work to be overseen by registered and approved supervisors, sets out classes of licence and registration and entitlement to them, and gives the Commissioner powers to suspend, cancel or impose conditions on a licence or registration. | SA | Act | 15 Jan 2026 | Official → |
| Building Work Contractors Regulations 2026Prescribes details under the Building Work Contractors Act 1995, including definitions of building work, exemptions, and the qualifications needed to be licensed as a building work contractor or registered as a building work supervisor, with plumbing, gas fitting and electrical work requiring the qualifications set under the Plumbers, Gas Fitters and Electricians Act 1995. It also covers annual fees and returns, notification of changed circumstances, and requirements for domestic building work contracts, including charging clauses, forms, unliquidated amounts and limits on insurers' liability. | SA | Regulation | 1 Sep 2026 | Official → |
6Buying, Selling and Title
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conveyancers Act 1994Regulates conveyancers in South Australia through a registration scheme, including entitlement to registration, professional indemnity insurance requirements, and cancellation, suspension or conditions on registration. It also governs the management of incorporated conveyancers and the handling of trust money, trust accounts and an indemnity fund, including appointment of administrators and temporary managers. | SA | Act | 4 Oct 2018 | Official → |
| Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Act 1994Regulates sales of land and businesses in South Australia and the preparation of conveyancing documents. It provides cooling-off rights, requires vendors to give purchasers prescribed particulars before settlement, sets obligations relating to subdivided land, and imposes requirements on agents and sales representatives, including their authority to act and their handling of offers on residential land. | SA | Act | 15 Jan 2026 | Official → |
| Law of Property Act 1936Consolidates and amends South Australian law on property and conveyancing, setting out general rules affecting property and how they apply to land under the Real Property Act 1886. It covers matters such as disposing of rights and interests in land, registration of pending actions, mortgagors' suits for possession, assignment of debts, court vesting orders on a sale or mortgage, rights of pre-emption and rights of light. | SA | Act | 15 Jan 2026 | Official → |
| Real Property Act 1886Consolidates South Australian law on the registration of title to land, with the objects of simplifying land title, making dealings in land easier and giving registered proprietors indefeasible title, subject to stated exceptions. It continues the Lands Titles Registration Office, provides for the Registrar-General and deputies to administer the Act, and sets out how land is brought under the Act. | SA | Act | 30 Jul 2026 | Official → |
| Land and Business (Sale and Conveyancing) Regulations 2025Supports South Australia's land and business sale and conveyancing legislation by prescribing contract forms, vendor's statements and particulars for sales of land and small businesses, cooling-off certificates, instalment agreements and prescribed inquiries. It regulates agents on residential offers and price representations, advice warnings, benefit disclosure, valuations, dual representation, auction conditions and collusive auction practices. It also governs when conveyancers may act for both parties and how notices are served. | SA | Regulation | 1 Sep 2025 | Official → |
| Real Property Regulations 2024Supports South Australia's real property legislation by excluding certain transactions from unlawful land division provisions and setting requirements for surveyor certificates, consents, examination and deposit of division and amalgamation plans. It deals with client authorisations, certification of instruments, verification of identity, registration of instruments, caveats, document retention, and service and consent requirements. It also makes fees payable to the Registrar-General, allows recovery of underpaid transfer fees, and contains electronic conveyancing transitional provisions. | SA | Regulation | 1 Jul 2026 | Official → |
7Renting and Residential Communities
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential Parks Act 2007Regulates the relationship between park owners and residents of residential parks in South Australia. It provides for park rules and residents committees, the formation and content of residential park agreements, protection from discrimination against residents with children, rent and other charges, and the mutual rights and obligations of owners and residents. | SA | Act | 28 Apr 2025 | Official → |
| Residential Tenancies Act 1995Regulates the relationship between landlords and tenants under residential tenancy agreements in South Australia. It provides for administration by the Commissioner, gives the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal jurisdiction over tenancy disputes, and sets out the rights and obligations of each party, including before an agreement is entered into, with only specified provisions applying to South Australian Housing Trust tenancies. | SA | Act | 15 Jan 2026 | Official → |
| Retirement Villages Act 2016Regulates retirement villages in South Australia and the rights of their residents. It provides for a Registrar and a register of retirement village schemes, authorised officers, residence contracts and disclosure statements, and financial matters such as holding deposits, ingoing contributions, exit entitlements and capital fund contributions. | SA | Act | 2 Feb 2026 | Official → |
| Residential Tenancies Regulations 2025Supports South Australia's residential tenancies legislation by prescribing inspection sheets, exempted and short fixed term agreements, information for prospective tenants, advertising content and required terms of tenancy agreements. It covers bond limits, lodgement and guarantees, lock changes for protected persons, drug contamination testing, minimum efficiency standards, entry notices and alterations to premises. It also sets termination grounds and notice requirements for landlords and tenants, including termination for domestic abuse, compensation and abandoned property. | SA | Regulation | 1 Sep 2025 | Official → |
8Strata and Community Title
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Titles Act 1996Provides for dividing land into lots and common property under a community plan, and for lot owners to administer the land through a community corporation. It covers what land can be divided, strata division, development lots, scheme descriptions, by-laws, staged development, lot entitlements, and the deposit of community plans with the associated vesting of lots and easements. | SA | Act | 9 Dec 2021 | Official → |
| Strata Titles Act 1988Provides for dividing land into units and common property by strata plan, and operates together with the Real Property Act 1886 as though the two formed one Act. It sets out requirements for strata plans and unit entitlements, the easements and common property arising on deposit, the amendment, amalgamation and cancellation of plans, and the constitution and articles of the strata corporation. | SA | Act | 9 Dec 2021 | Official → |
| Community Titles Regulations 2026Prescribes requirements under the Community Titles Act 1996 for community plans, including compliance with guidelines, lot entitlements, encroachments, outer boundary survey plans, examination and deposit of plans by the Registrar-General, and applications to the ERD Court to amend or cancel a plan. It also regulates the administration of community schemes, covering body corporate managers, meetings and resolutions, fidelity guarantee insurance, contributions and arrears, and the audit of agents' accounts and trust records. | SA | Regulation | 1 Sep 2026 | Official → |
| Strata Titles Regulations 2018Supports South Australia's strata titles legislation by setting requirements for strata plans and maps, unit entitlements, and applications to amend a deposited strata plan or to have the ERD Court amend or cancel one. It deals with strata corporation articles, secretary and treasurer functions, raising money, body corporate managers, insurance and general meetings. It also regulates agents' trust accounts, including withdrawals, records, reconciliations and audits, and requires a register of unit holders. | SA | Regulation | 1 Sep 2026 | Official → |
9Land Tax, Duties and Valuation
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Emergency Services Funding Act 1998Imposes a levy to fund emergency services in South Australia and establishes the Community Emergency Services Fund. It provides for the levy on land, based on emergency services areas and land use categories declared by notice, together with assessment, objections, refunds, interest and penalty levy. | SA | Act | 4 Dec 2025 | Official → |
| First Home and Housing Construction Grants Act 2000Establishes a scheme of grants to first home owners in South Australia to support home ownership and offset the GST's effect on buying a first home, and promotes housing construction in the State. It sets eligibility criteria for applicants and transactions, provides for housing construction and seniors housing grants, and governs how grants are applied for. | SA | Act | 4 Dec 2025 | Official → |
| Land Tax Act 1936Imposes land tax in South Australia and sets out exemptions, waivers and the method for determining the taxable value of land. It governs how the tax is assessed, including the aggregation of land, land with more than one owner, land divided by community or strata plan, and land held on fixed, unit or discretionary trusts. | SA | Act | 4 Dec 2025 | Official → |
| Stamp Duties Act 1923Imposes and regulates stamp duties in South Australia, setting out the territorial application of duty, the issue of stamp duty certificates and the general rules for denoting and paying duty on instruments. It deals with how property is valued for ad valorem duty, when duty must be paid, the treatment of dutiable copies, and limits on admitting unstamped instruments in evidence or registering them. | SA | Act | 4 Dec 2025 | Official → |
| Taxation Administration Act 1996Makes general provision for administering and enforcing South Australia's taxation laws, which separately impose tax and set exemptions and refund entitlements. It covers assessment and reassessment of tax, refunds, interest and penalty tax, special tax return arrangements, collection, taxpayer record keeping and offences, and tax officers. | SA | Act | 4 Dec 2025 | Official → |
| Valuation of Land Act 1971Provides for the valuation of land in South Australia by the Valuer-General, including general valuations, valuations on request and the keeping and amendment of valuation rolls. It sets out how valuations are notified and objected to, provides for review by land valuers and by SACAT, and allows regulations excluding certain fixtures or improvements from values used for rating and taxing purposes. | SA | Act | 17 Jun 2021 | Official → |
| Land Tax Regulations 2025Prescribes administrative requirements under the Land Tax Act 1936, including obligations on owners to notify the Commissioner of ownership changes not yet recorded on the title and of changes of address. It also deals with prescribed associations and exemptions, record keeping, certificates of land tax liability, execution of notices and misuse of the Commissioner's documents, and repeals the previous land tax regulations. | SA | Regulation | Current edition | Official → |
| Stamp Duties Regulations 2013Supports South Australia's stamp duties legislation by bringing certain listed unit trust interests and financial markets within defined terms, and dealing with impressed stamps and allowances for spoiled or unused stamps. It also covers exemptions for certain heavy and electric vehicles, computation of duty on interrelated instruments, excluded transactions, special Acts and concession card holders. | SA | Regulation | 29 Sep 2022 | Official → |
10Heritage and Environment
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coast Protection Act 1972Provides for the conservation and protection of South Australia's beaches and coastline. It establishes a board with powers to carry out authorised works, remove sand, and acquire, enter and temporarily occupy land, and provides for coast protection districts with management plans, a coast protection fund, restricted areas and the appointment of wardens. | SA | Act | 1 Jan 2021 | Official → |
| Environment Protection Act 1993Provides for protecting the environment in South Australia and establishes the Environment Protection Authority with its functions and powers. It deals with pollution, waste, environmental harm and site contamination, sets out the objects of the Act, provides for administering agencies and round-table conferences, and regulates prescribed activities of environmental significance. | SA | Act | 1 Mar 2024 | Official → |
| Heritage Places Act 1993Provides for identifying, recording and conserving places and objects of non-Aboriginal heritage significance in South Australia. It establishes the South Australian Heritage Council, whose functions include advising the State Planning Commission, together with the South Australian Heritage Fund and the South Australian Heritage Register, and sets the criteria and process for registering places. | SA | Act | 30 Jul 2026 | Official → |
| Landscape South Australia Act 2019Promotes the sustainable and integrated management of South Australia's landscapes and provides for protecting the State's natural resources, including land and water resources. It sets out objects, principles and general statutory duties, and establishes landscape regions, including Green Adelaide, and regional landscape boards with their membership and meeting procedures. | SA | Act | 25 Nov 2023 | Official → |
| Native Vegetation Act 1991Controls the clearance of native vegetation in South Australia and provides incentives and assistance for landowners to preserve and enhance it. It establishes the Native Vegetation Council and the Native Vegetation Fund, and provides for heritage agreements, approval of revegetation proposals and financial and other assistance, with decision-makers required to further the Act's objects and clearance principles. | SA | Act | 25 Nov 2023 | Official → |
| Heritage Places Regulations 2020Prescribes matters for the operation of the Heritage Places Act 1993, which provides for conserving places and objects of non-Aboriginal heritage significance, including the periods for telling the Council where a discovered object is located and supplying requested information. It sets the form of notice allowing a person alleged to have contravened the Act to elect prosecution instead of civil penalty proceedings, and prescribes a rate of interest and fees. | SA | Regulation | 12 Sep 2024 | Official → |
| Native Vegetation Regulations 2017Specifies, under the Native Vegetation Act 1991, when clearance of native vegetation is permitted with or without conditions, including for fire hazard reduction, vegetation management plans, major developments and projects, mining and petroleum activities and exploratory operations. It requires the Council to prepare guidelines and to weigh the Act's objects, the clearance principles, risk to biological diversity and any significant environmental benefit. It also sets time limits and conditions for approvals and deals with clearance on certain specified land. | SA | Regulation | 2 Nov 2023 | Official → |
11Natural Hazards and Fire
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fire and Emergency Services Act 2005Establishes the South Australian Fire and Emergency Services Commission to oversee governance, strategy and policy across the emergency services sector. It continues the metropolitan fire service, the country fire service and the State emergency service, and provides for preventing, controlling and suppressing fires, for bushfire prevention and management, and for responding to certain emergencies. | SA | Act | 1 Jan 2024 | Official → |
12Real Estate Agents
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land Agents Act 1994Regulates land agents, sales representatives, property managers and auctioneers in South Australia, requiring each to be registered and setting the entitlements and conditions for registration. It requires agents' businesses to be properly supervised and managed, and allows the Commissioner, who administers the Act, to suspend or vary a registration in urgent circumstances. | SA | Act | 1 Feb 2019 | Official → |
| Land Agents Regulations 2025Supports South Australia's land agents legislation by allowing fee waivers and refunds, extending the definition of property manager to tenancy inspections, and setting training and supervision conditions for sales representatives and property managers. It covers annual fees and returns, notice of changed circumstances, registration certificates and supervision of places of business. It also regulates agents' trust accounts, including interest, receipts, payments, records, reconciliations and audits, and governs claims on the indemnity fund. | SA | Regulation | Current edition | Official → |
13Local Government
| Instrument | Level | Type | In Force From | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local Government Act 1999Provides for the system of local government in South Australia, setting out its objects, the principal role and functions of councils and the principles they must observe. It governs the creation, structuring and restructuring of councils by proclamation, representation reviews, composition and wards, and the handling of reform proposals through inquiries, and constitutes each council as a body corporate. | SA | Act | 1 Aug 2026 | Official → |
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