(1)  A relevant person ( the receiver ), by notice to another relevant person ( the sender ), may advise the sender of an electronic method by which a relevant document, required or permitted to be given under this Act to the receiver by the sender, may be given to the receiver by the sender.

(2)  If under this Act a relevant document is required or permitted to be given to a relevant person ( the receiver ) by another relevant person ( the sender ), the document may be given by the sender by an electronic method that is specified by the receiver in a notice to the sender under subsection (1) .

(3)  A relevant person may specify on a website of the relevant person an electronic method by which a submission in relation to a matter may be made to the relevant person by another person.

(4)  If under this Act a submission in relation to a matter may be given to a relevant person by another person, the submission may be made to the relevant person by the other person by transmitting the submission by an electronic method specified in relation to the matter under subsection (3) by the relevant person.

(5)  A reference in this section to the giving of a relevant document includes a reference to the issuing, provision or service, or other means of delivery, of the document.

(6)  If a relevant document, referred to in a provision of this Act, may be given by a person in accordance with this section, a reference in a provision of this Act to a signature of a person on the document is to be taken to include a reference to an electronic signature, of the person, on the document.

(7)  In this section –

relevant document means –

(a) a notice (including a notice in writing and a planning purposes notice), direction (including a direction in writing), declaration and invitation; and

(b) a draft planning scheme, draft interim planning scheme, planning scheme, interim planning scheme, draft amendment to a planning scheme and a draft amendment to an interim planning scheme, in each case within the meaning of this Act as in force before the day on which section 10 of the Tasmanian Planning Scheme Amendment Act commenced; and

(ba) a draft of the SPPs, a draft amendment of the SPPs, a draft LPS and a draft amendment of an LPS; and

(c) a permit, a special planning permit and a dispensation; and

(d) a statement, submission, recommendation, modification, requirement, application, approval, report and any other document (including a document specified in a provision of this Act to be a document in writing);

relevant person means –

(a) the Minister; and

(b) the Commission; and

(c) a planning authority.