30NBInterim SPPs amendments

30NB Interim SPPs amendments

[Section 30NB of Division 2 of Part 3 Inserted by No. 7 of 2021, s. 8, Applied:14 Jul 2021]

(1)  The Minister, after having given a notice under section 30G(3) of the approval for exhibition of a draft amendment of the SPPs, may give to the Commission a notice requesting the Commission to advise the Minister, within a period specified in the notice, as to whether some or all of the provisions of the draft amendment of the SPPs should become an interim SPPs amendment.

(2)  The Commission, within the period specified in a notice under subsection (1) or a longer period allowed by the Minister, is to –

(a) advise the Minister whether, in the opinion of the Commission, some or all of the provisions of the draft amendment of the SPPs should become an interim SPPs amendment; and

(b) give to the Minister the Commission’s reasons for giving that advice.

(3)  The Minister, after considering the advice, and opinion, received under subsection (2) in relation to a draft amendment of the SPPs, may –

(a) make an interim SPPs amendment in the terms of some or all of the provisions of the draft amendment of the SPPs, modified, if at all, as the Minister thinks fit; or

(b) decide not to make an interim SPPs amendment in the terms of some or all of the provisions of the draft amendment of the SPPs.

(4)  The Minister may only make an interim SPPs amendment under subsection (3)(a) in the terms of some or all of the provisions of a draft amendment of the SPPs, modified, if at all, as the Minister thinks fit, if the Minister is satisfied that –

(a) it is necessary or desirable to make the interim SPPs amendment in order to urgently address issues relating to a natural or environmental hazard, public health, public safety or a prescribed circumstance or matter; and

(b) it is in the public interest to give effect as soon as practicable to the provisions of the draft amendment of the SPPs contained in the interim SPPs amendment.