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Conservation Act 1987

Concessions

17SD: Minister may require applicant to provide further information

You could also call this:

"The Minister can ask you for more information when you apply for something."

When you apply for a concession, the Minister might ask you to give more information. The Minister will ask you in writing and you must provide the information within a reasonable time. You might need to do an environmental impact assessment, which is a report that looks at how your actions could affect the environment.

If you need to do an environmental impact assessment, it must be in a certain form, which is set out in Schedule 4 of the Resource Management Act 1991, or in a form that the Minister requires. The Minister needs this information to make a decision about your application. You must give the Minister all the information they ask for.

If you do not give the Minister all the information they need, they might send your application back to you. However, the Minister cannot send your application back if you tell them you cannot give them the information, or if your application has been publicly notified. The Minister will tell you why they are sending your application back.

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Part 3BConcessions

17SDMinister may require applicant to provide further information

  1. The Minister may, by notice in writing, require an applicant for a concession to supply any further information (including an environmental impact assessment) that the Minister considers necessary to enable a decision to be made.

  2. The applicant must provide the information within any reasonable time that is specified in the notice.

  3. An environmental impact assessment that is provided for the purposes of this section must be—

  4. in the form set out in Schedule 4 of the Resource Management Act 1991; or
    1. in any other form that the Minister requires.

      1. If the applicant does not provide all of the information within the specified time and the Minister determines that the information not provided is necessary to enable a decision to be made on the application, the Minister may return the application to the applicant with the reasons for the determination.

      2. However, the Minister cannot return the application under subsection (4) if—

      3. the applicant, within the specified time, advises the Minister that some or all of the requested information will not be provided and requests that the application be considered anyway; or
        1. the application has been publicly notified.

          Notes
          • Section 17SD: inserted, on , by section 202 of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).
          • Section 17SD(1): amended, on , by section 6 of the Resource Management (Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Repeal and Interim Fast-track Consenting) Act 2023 (2023 No 68).
          • Section 17SD(3): replaced, on , by section 6 of the Resource Management (Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Repeal and Interim Fast-track Consenting) Act 2023 (2023 No 68).