(1) The Commission
may, with the agreement or on the direction of the Minister, prepare State
planning policies.
(2) A State planning
policy is to be directed primarily towards broad general planning and
facilitating the coordination of planning throughout the State by local
governments and public authorities.
(3) Despite subsection
(2), a State planning policy may make provision for any matter which may be
the subject of a local planning scheme.
(4) A State planning
policy may be prepared so as to apply —
(a)
generally or in a particular class of matter or in particular classes of
matter; and
(b)
throughout the State or in a specified portion or specified portions of the
State, whether or not a planning scheme has been prepared or is being prepared
in that portion or those portions of the State.
[Section 26 amended: No. 28 of 2010 s. 8; No. 26
of 2020 s. 62.]