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If someone applies for planning consent and it's notified, the consent authority must give some of its jobs to one or more hearings commissioners. These commissioners can't be part of the consent authority. The consent authority does this under section 196(1).
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If an application for a planning consent is notified, the consent authority must delegate, under section 196(1), its functions, powers, and duties required to hear and decide an application for a planning consent to 1 or more hearings commissioners who are not members of the consent authority.
