Major Infrastructure Development Approvals Act 1999

The chairperson and deputy chairperson of a combined planning authority are to be appointed by the combined planning authority from the members of the combined planning authority.

The chairperson and deputy chairperson of the combined planning authority may attend and vote at the same meeting of the combined planning authority.

The provisions of the Local Government Act 1993 which are listed in Schedule 1 and the provisions of the Local Government (Meeting Procedures) Regulations 2005 apply to a combined planning authority or a committee of a combined planning authority as if – the combined planning authority were a council; and the members of the combined planning authority were councillors elected to the council; and appointment to a combined planning authority were election to a council; and the chairperson of the combined planning authority were the mayor of the council; and the deputy chairperson of the combined planning authority were the deputy mayor of the council; and the general manager were the general manager of the council; and a committee of the combined planning authority were a council committee.

A specified planning authority is not to be taken as being a close associate, within the meaning of the Local Government Act 1993, of a member of a combined planning authority or of a member of a committee of a combined planning authority.

A combined planning authority is to have a general manager.

The general manager of a combined planning authority is to be appointed by the combined planning authority.

The administrative support for a combined planning authority is to be provided by such specified planning authority as the combined planning authority determines.

The costs and expenses incurred by a combined planning authority in performing its functions are to be shared equally between the specified planning authorities unless the combined planning authority otherwise determines.

An amount due from one specified planning authority to another under subsection (7) may be recovered as a debt in any court of competent jurisdiction.

A combined planning authority must maintain insurance which indemnifies it against any liability which it may incur in the performance of its functions.