Joint Committee on Economic Development, Infrastructure and Outer Suburban/Interface Services

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The Economic Development, Infrastructure and Outer Suburban/Interface Services Committee is a former Joint Investigatory Committee of the 57th Parliament of Victoria.

On the 1st August 2013, pursuant to the Parliamentary Committees Amendment Act 2013, the Joint Investigatory Committees known as the Economic Development and Infrastructure Committee [VA 3139] and the Outer Suburban / Interface Services and Development Committee [VA 4776] were abolished.

The Economic Development, Infrastructure and Outer Suburban Interface Services Committee was established as successor committee [VA 5220, this agency].

On the 21 April 2015 it merged with the Education and Training Committee

The functions of the Economic Development, Infrastructure and Outer Suburban/Interface Services Committee are, if so required or permitted under this Act, to inquire into, consider and report to the Parliament on any proposal, matter or thing concerned with:

- economic development, industrial affairs or infrastructure
- the provision of services to new urban regions
- the development or expansion of new urban regions.

In subsection (1), urban regions means any part of Victoria developed for urban purposes that is not within regional Victoria as defined in section 16(2).