New South Wales Consolidated Acts

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT ACT 1979 - SECT 23N

23N Obligations of councils to assist Commission, regional panels and planning arbitrators

(1) The Commission, a regional panel or a planning arbitrator is entitled:

(a) to have access to, and to make copies of and take extracts from, records of a council relevant to the exercise of the Commission’s, panel’s or arbitrator’s functions, and

(b) to the use of the staff and facilities of a relevant council in order to exercise the Commission’s, panel’s or arbitrator’s functions.

(2) The general manager of a council must carry out any reasonable direction of the Commission, a regional panel or a planning arbitrator relating to functions of the council being exercised by the Commission or panel or to a review by the arbitrator of a matter for which the council is the consent authority.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.

(3) A member of a council, or the general manager or other member of staff of a council, must not obstruct the Commission, a regional panel, a planning arbitrator or a member of the Commission or a panel in the exercise of the Commission’s, panel’s or arbitrator’s functions under this Act.

Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.