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LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 375A Recording of voting on planning matters

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1993 - SECT 375A

Recording of voting on planning matters

375A Recording of voting on planning matters

(1) In this section,
"planning decision" means a decision made in the exercise of a function of a council under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 --
(a) including a decision relating to a development application, an environmental planning instrument, a development control plan or a development contribution plan under that Act, but
(b) not including the making of an order under Division 2A of Part 6 of that Act.
(2) The general manager is required to keep a register containing, for each planning decision made at a meeting of the council or a council committee, the names of the councillors who supported the decision and the names of any councillors who opposed (or are taken to have opposed) the decision.
(3) For the purpose of maintaining the register, a division is required to be called whenever a motion for a planning decision is put at a meeting of the council or a council committee.
(4) Each decision recorded in the register is to be described in the register or identified in a manner that enables the description to be obtained from another publicly available document, and is to include the information required by the regulations.
(5) This section extends to a meeting that is closed to the public.