Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

During the period of appointment, the planning administrator or regional panel—

is to exercise the functions of the council under this Act that are specified in the order of appointment, and

is, in the exercise of those functions, taken to be the council, and

is to exercise those functions to the exclusion of the council except to the extent that the order of appointment provides otherwise, and

is, in the exercise of those functions, to give priority to particular functions to the extent that the order of appointment so provides.

Despite subsection (1), a planning administrator is not to enter into contracts in the exercise of the planning administrator’s functions except—

with the consent of the Minister and the concurrence of the Minister for Local Government, or

in the case of contracts for the appointment of staff—with the authority conferred by a regulation made under section 9.11.

Subsection (1) has effect even if the appointment of the planning administrator is subsequently found not to have been validly made.