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Divisions of Planning Commissioners
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514. (1) Where the Governing Board considers that it is appropriate for the purposes of the efficient and expeditious conduct of the business of the Commission that the Planning Commissioners should act by divisions, it may direct that such number of divisions of the Planning Commissioners as it considers appropriate be constituted.
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(2) Where a direction is given under subsection (1), the Chief Planning Commissioner shall constitute the number of divisions stated in the direction and, following consultation with the chief executive officer, shall assign to each division, as the Chief Planning Commissioner considers appropriate, the business to be transacted by it and a sufficient number of Planning Commissioners to conduct such business.
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(3) The Governing Board may revoke a direction under subsection (1), and where the direction is revoked, the business of the divisions shall be assigned by the Chief Planning Commissioner, following consultation with the chief executive officer, to be transacted by the Planning Commissioners as he or she considers appropriate.
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(4) Where the Chief Planning Commissioner considers that it is appropriate for the purposes of the efficient and expeditious conduct of the business of the Commission that the Planning Commissioners should act by divisions, he or she may—
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(a) constitute such number of divisions as he or she considers appropriate, and
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(b) assign to each division the business to be transacted by it and a sufficient number of Planning Commissioners to conduct that business.
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(5) For the purpose of the business assigned to it, a division shall have all of the powers and duties of the Planning Commissioners under this Act or any other enactment, and references in this Act or any other enactment to the Planning Commissioners shall be construed as references to the division.
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(6) The Chief Planning Commissioner or, in his or her absence, the Deputy Chief Planning Commissioner, or a person acting as chairperson of a meeting of a division, may, at any stage before a decision is made by a division, where he or she considers the matter to be of particular complexity or significance, transfer the consideration of any matter from the division to a meeting of all available Planning Commissioners.
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(7) Where necessary in order to ensure that the business of the Commission is discharged expeditiously, the Chief Planning Commissioner, or the Deputy Chief Planning Commissioner where the office of Chief Planning Commissioner is vacant, may assign additional Planning Commissioners to a division on a temporary basis.
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(8) The Commission shall publish on a website maintained by or on behalf of the Commission, and maintain at the offices of the Commission, a register of the divisions of the Commission and the Planning Commissioners assigned to each division, and the business to be transacted by each division.
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