Section 37 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

(a) by inserting the following subparagraphs after subparagraph (vi) in subsection (1)(a) :

(via) the removal or amendment of any local provision of the scheme that is, under section 30EA , inconsistent with another provision; or

(vib) ensuring the effective operation of a planning purposes notice; or

(vic) ensuring that the local provisions of the scheme are consistent with one another and any planning directive, to the extent that the directive applies in relation to the scheme; or

(vid) enabling an alteration of the zoning of land to which an interim planning scheme applies, or has applied, so that the zoning that applied to the land before the interim planning scheme applied ( the former zoning ) may become the zoning that most closely corresponds to the former zoning; or

(vie) implementing an agreed amendment; or

(b) by inserting the following subsections after subsection (1) :

(1A)  For the purposes of subsection (1)(a)(vie) , an agreed amendment is an amendment, to a provision of an interim planning scheme, that –

(a) is proposed in a representation that is included in a report under section 30J in relation to the interim planning scheme ; and

(b) is not in conflict with any other representations in relation to the provision; and

(c) is agreed to by the planning authority.

(1B)  For the purpose of determining whether or not the public interest will be prejudiced in respect of an amendment of a planning scheme for a purpose referred to in subsection (1)(a)(vid) or (vie)  –

(a) the Commission must –

(i) cause a copy of the draft amendment to be placed on public exhibition for a period of 14 days or a longer period agreed to by the planning authority and the Commission; and

(ii) cause an invitation, for submissions to be made within the period for which the draft amendment is placed on public exhibition, to be publicly exhibited together with the copy of the amendment; and

(iii) advertise, as prescribed, the exhibition of the draft amendment and the invitation; and

(iv) cause a copy of the draft amendment and the invitation to be placed on public exhibition at its office for that period; and

(b) after the end of the period referred to in paragraph (a)(i) , take into account any submissions made in relation to the amendment under subsection (1C) .

(1C)  A person may, within the period referred to in paragraph (a)(i) in relation to a draft amendment of a planning scheme, make a submission in relation to the draft amendment.