(1)  After consideration by the Commission of a draft State Policy (including any modifications made under section 10 ), the Commission must submit a report on the draft State Policy to the Minister.

(2)  The Commission must publish notice of its report to the Minister under subsection (1) in the Gazette and must make the report publicly available.

(3)  The Minister may, on receipt of a report on a draft State Policy from the Commission, recommend to the Governor the making of a Tasmanian Sustainable Development Policy.

(4)  The Governor may make a Tasmanian Sustainable Development Policy in accordance with a recommendation made under subsection (3) , and fix a day on which it will come into operation.

(5)  Before it comes into operation, a State Policy must be notified in the Gazette .

(6)  The Minister must cause a State Policy to be laid before each House of Parliament within the first 10 sitting days of the House after it is so notified.

(7)  A State Policy is of no effect until it has been approved by both Houses of Parliament.

(8)  For the purposes of subsection (7) , a House of Parliament is to be taken to have approved a State Policy if a copy of it has been laid on the table of that House and –

(a) it is approved by that House; or

(b) at the expiration of 10 sitting days after it was laid on the table of that House, no notice has been given of a motion to disallow it or, if such notice has been given, the notice has been withdrawn or the motion has been negatived; or

(c) if any notice of a motion to disallow it is given during that period of 10 sitting days, the notice is, after the expiration of that period, withdrawn or the motion is negatived.