Division 237 Governor may make environmental planning instruments (SEPPs)
(1) The Governor may make environmental planning instruments for the purpose of environmental planning by the State. Any such instrument may be called a State environmental planning policy (or SEPP).(2) Without limiting subsection (1), an environmental planning instrument may be made by the Governor to make provision with respect to any matter that, in the opinion of the Minister, is of State or regional environmental planning significance.
Before recommending the making of an environmental planning instrument by the Governor, the Minister is to take such steps, if any, as the Minister considers appropriate or necessary:(a) to publicise an explanation of the intended effect of the proposed instrument, and(b) to seek and consider submissions from the public on the matter.Note. See also section 34A.