Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) On receipt under section 11 of a direction to undertake an assessment of a draft planning directive, the Commission must undertake that assessment.
(2) Before undertaking the assessment, the Commission must –
(a) give written notice to the person (other than the Commission) who prepared the draft planning directive and any planning authority or State Service Agency likely to be affected by the planning directive, if issued, that it will be undertaking the assessment; and
(b) invite representations from any person given notice under paragraph (a); and
(c) publish notice that it will be undertaking the assessment in a newspaper circulating generally in Tasmania or that part of Tasmania likely to be affected by the planning directive, if issued.
(3) In undertaking an assessment, the Commission may inform itself of any matter in any manner it considers appropriate, including by the conduct of a hearing.
(4) Part 3 of the Resource Planning and Development Commission Act 1997 applies in respect of a hearing held by the Commission for the purposes of an assessment.
(5) On the completion of an assessment, the Commission must provide to the Minister a report of its findings and its recommendations as to whether or not a planning directive in the terms of the draft planning directive, or the draft planning directive modified as recommended by the Commission, should be issued.