(1) Schedule 2 contains provisions with respect to the members and procedure
of local planning panels.
(2) A local planning panel is required to give
written reasons for its decisions and make them publicly available on a
website of or used by the panel. A decision is not invalid merely because of a
failure to give or publish the reasons or all of the reasons for the decision.
(3) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the following--
(b) without limiting
paragraph (a), providing that parties are not to be represented (whether by an
Australian legal practitioner or any other person) or are only to be
represented in specified circumstances,