Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

In this clause—

The appointing authority may, from time to time, appoint a person to be the alternate of a member of a planning body, and may revoke any such appointment.

The Minister may direct appointing authorities to appoint persons as alternates of members of local planning panels.

A person is not eligible to be appointed as the alternate of a member of a planning body unless the person is eligible to be appointed as that member.

In the absence of a member, the member’s alternate may, if available, act in the place of the member.

While acting in the place of a member, a person has all the functions of the member and is taken to be a member.

A person may be appointed as the alternate of 2 or more members, but may represent only one of those members at any meeting of the planning body.

In the case of State members of a Sydney district or regional planning panel or members of a local planning panel, a number of persons may be appointed as the alternate of one or more members. The person who may act in the place of a member on any particular occasion is the person determined by the chairperson of the panel concerned.

A person while acting in the place of a member is entitled to be paid such remuneration (including travelling and subsistence allowances) as the Minister may from time to time determine in respect of the person.

If the chairperson of a planning body is appointed from among a number of members of the body, the alternate of a member who is the chairperson does not have the member’s functions as chairperson unless the appointing authority authorises the alternate to exercise those functions.