Member

A central tenet of this Government’s reforms of the NSIP regime has been to ensure that national policy statements are kept up to date. Clause 1 of the Bill ensures that no national policy statement can be more than five years old without being fully reviewed and updated. To support this, it is vital that the process for updating national policy statements is proportionate to the change proposed. Currently the procedure is the same regardless of whether the Government are making a material change to a national policy statement or designating a new national policy statement. This cannot continue.