Conservation Act 1987

Management planning

17G: Procedure for preparation and approval of conservation management plans

You could also call this:

"How to create and approve a conservation management plan"

When you want to make a conservation management plan, you follow the same steps as making a conservation management strategy, as outlined in section 17F. You consider the draft plan and a summary of it. You then decide to approve the plan, ask for it to be revised, or send it to the Conservation Authority.

The Conservation Authority or the Minister can ask you to send the draft plan to the Authority at any time before you approve it. If the draft is sent to the Authority, the Director-General can make submissions on it. You must approve the draft plan or send it to the Conservation Authority within six months, or by a later date set by the Minister.

If you send the draft plan to the Conservation Authority, you also give them a summary and a statement of any matters you disagree on with the Director-General. The Conservation Authority considers the draft plan and other information, and may talk to the Director-General, the Conservation Boards, and other people. After considering everything, the Conservation Authority makes any necessary changes and sends the draft plan to the Minister. The Minister looks at the draft plan and sends it back to the Conservation Authority with any recommendations. The Conservation Authority then either approves the draft plan or sends it back to the Minister for further consideration.

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17F: Procedure for preparation and approval of conservation management strategies, or

"How conservation plans are created and approved"

17H: Reviews of conservation management strategies and conservation management plans, or

"Checking and updating conservation plans and strategies to protect New Zealand's environment"

Part 3AManagement planning

17GProcedure for preparation and approval of conservation management plans

The provisions of paragraphs (a) to (j) of section 17F shall apply to the preparation and approval of draft conservation management plans as if such draft plans were draft conservation management strategies.
On receipt of the draft and the summary under the provisions referred to in subsection (1), the Conservation Boards affected shall consider those documents and then shall—
approve the plan; or
request the Director-General to revise the plan; or
send the plan to the Conservation Authority for consideration.

The following provisions shall also apply to draft conservation management plans:
at any time before the Boards approve the draft, the Authority or the Minister may require the Boards to send the draft to the Authority for approval:
if a draft is sent to the Authority under paragraph (a), the Director-General shall be entitled to make to the Authority submissions on the draft:
every draft referred by the Director-General to Conservation Boards under the provisions referred to in subsection (1) shall be approved by the Boards or sent to the Conservation Authority, as the case may require, before—
1. the expiration of 6 months after the date of its referral to the Boards by the Director-General; or
2. such later date as may be fixed in that behalf by the Minister:
where the Boards send a draft to the Authority, the Boards shall also furnish the Authority with the summary prepared under subsection (1) and a written statement of any matters of content on which the Director-General and the Boards are unable to agree:
the Conservation Authority shall, in such a case, consider the draft and all other information furnished with it and may consult such persons and organisations as it considers appropriate, including the Director-General and the Conservation Boards affected:
after such consideration, the Conservation Authority shall make such amendments as it considers necessary and send the draft and the other relevant information to the Minister:
the Minister shall consider the draft and send it back to the Conservation Authority with any written recommendations the Minister considers appropriate:
after having regard to any recommendations expressed in writing by the Minister, the Conservation Authority shall either—
1. approve the draft strategy or plan; or
2. send back to the Minister for further consideration the draft and any new information the Authority wishes the Minister to consider, before the Authority approves the draft.

Notes

Section 17G: inserted, on 10 April 1990, by section 13(1) of the Conservation Law Reform Act 1990 (1990 No 31).