50. Summary of submissions, notification, and conduct of
 hearing---Sections 39 to 42, and clauses 7 and 8 of Part I of the First
 Schedule shall, with all necessary modifications, apply in respect of an
 inquiry by a board of inquiry into a proposed national policy statement
 as if every reference in those sections and in those clauses to---
   (a) A consent authority or a local authority were a reference to a
         board of inquiry; and
   (b) A proposed policy statement were a reference to the proposed
         national policy statement---

 and the Minister and any person who made a submission under section 49
 shall have the right to be heard at any such inquiry.