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Planning Bill

Combined plan - Requirement for regional spatial plans - Spatial plan committees

72: Ministerial appointments to spatial plan committee

You could also call this:

"The Minister chooses people to join a spatial plan committee to help make fair decisions."

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The Minister can appoint one member to a spatial plan committee. You will also see the Minister can appoint more members if the local authorities agree. The Minister's appointee can vote like other members, unless the Minister says otherwise. The Minister can decide their appointee has no vote or can only vote on certain matters. You should know the Minister must put this in writing when they make the appointment. This means the Minister's directions are clear and formal. The local authorities and the Minister work together on spatial plan committees. You are part of a community that will be affected by these committees' decisions. The Minister's appointments help make sure the committees are fair and effective.

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Part 3Combined plan
Requirement for regional spatial plans: Spatial plan committees

72Ministerial appointments to spatial plan committee

  1. The Minister may appoint—

  2. 1 member to a spatial plan committee; and
    1. 1 or more additional members to that committee, if the local authorities of the region agree to that additional number of members.

      1. A member of a spatial plan committee appointed by the Minister has the same voting rights as a member appointed by the local authorities of the region, unless the Minister directs in writing at the time of appointment that the member—

      2. is a non-voting member; or
        1. may only vote on specified matters.