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Fast-track Approvals Bill

Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects - Process for panel consideration of substantive application - Hearing of panel

24QAAB: Remote access hearing

You could also call this:

“You can join a hearing online or watch it later”

You can have a hearing using remote access facilities like video conferencing. The panel can decide to do this on their own, or you or someone else involved can ask for it.

If the hearing is held remotely, the panel must try to make it available for everyone to watch live and for free, maybe on a website. If they can’t do that, they need to put a recording or written copy of the hearing on a website as soon as they can after it’s over. You’ll be able to watch or read this for free.

Sometimes, the panel might need to keep parts of the hearing private. They can do this if the rules in section 48 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 say it’s okay.

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Part 2 Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects
Process for panel consideration of substantive application: Hearing of panel

24QAABRemote access hearing

  1. A panel may direct that a hearing or part of a hearing be held using 1 or more remote access facilities—

  2. on the initiative of the panel; or
    1. at the request of the applicant; or
      1. at the request of a person, or a representative of a group of persons, referred to in section 24Q(1) .

        1. If a hearing is held using a remote access facility, a panel must,—

        2. if it is reasonably practicable to do so, enable access to the hearing by making it available live and free of charge to the public, for example, on an internet site; or
          1. as soon as practicable after the hearing closes, make available, free of charge on an internet site,—
            1. an audio or a video recording of the hearing; or
              1. a written transcript of the hearing.

              2. Subsection (2) is subject to section 48 of the Local Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (right of local authorities to exclude public).