State Development and Public Works Organisation Act 1971

To the extent the relevant application relates to a material change of use of premises, or requires impact assessment, under the Planning Act—

the application does not require public notification under the Planning Act, section 53; and

there are no referral agencies under the Planning Act for the application; and

a properly made submission about either of the following is taken to be a properly made submission about the application for the Planning Act, chapter 3—

a draft EIS or draft IAR for the project;

any additional information, required by the Coordinator-General for the project, that was publicly notified under section 34C(3) or 34K(3); and

despite paragraph (b), until any development approval for the application has effect—

the Coordinator-General’s report for the EIS or IAR for the project is taken to be a referral agency’s response for the application for the Planning Act, chapter 3; and

the Coordinator-General may exercise any power of an entity as a referral agency that, other than for paragraph (b), would have been a referral agency for the application.

Subsection (1)(c) does not apply if the application involves only a material change of use requiring code assessment under the Planning Act.

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