Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

A planning body may, if it thinks fit, transact any of its business by the circulation of papers among all the members of the planning body for the time being, and a resolution in writing approved in writing by a majority of those members is taken to be a decision of the planning body.

For the purposes of the approval of a resolution under this clause, the chairperson and each member of the planning body have the same voting rights as they have at an ordinary meeting of the planning body.

A resolution approved under this clause is to be recorded in the minutes of the meetings of the planning body and is to be made publicly available on the website of or used by the planning body.

Papers may be circulated among the members for the purposes of this clause by electronic transmission of the information in the papers concerned.

The regulations may provide that a prescribed planning body is exempt from the requirements of subclause (3).

However, a planning body prescribed under subclause (5) must, within 14 days after making a resolution relating to proposed development that includes residential accommodation, make the resolution and written reasons for the resolution publicly available.