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Local Government Act 2002

Consequential amendments, repeals, revocations, transitional provisions, and savings - Transitional provisions

290: Development contributions

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"Paying for community services when you build or develop something"

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A local authority can require you to make a development contribution under section 198 only if certain conditions are met. You must be applying for a resource consent, building consent, authorisation for a service connection, or a project information memorandum on or after certain dates. The local authority can make this requirement if your application was made on or after 1 July 2003, or between 19 December 2001 and 30 June 2003.

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Part 12Consequential amendments, repeals, revocations, transitional provisions, and savings
Transitional provisions

290Development contributions

  1. The power that a local authority has, under section 198, to require a development contribution to be made to the local authority may be exercised only if—

  2. the requirement is made in respect of the granting, on or after 1 July 2003, of—
    1. a resource consent; or
      1. a building consent; or
        1. an authorisation for a service connection; or
        2. the requirement is made in respect of the issuing, on and after the commencement of this paragraph, of a project information memorandum for a non-consented small stand-alone dwelling; and
          1. the application for the resource consent, building, consent, authorisation, or issue of a project information memorandum—
            1. is made on or after 1 July 2003; or
              1. was made in the period beginning on 19 December 2001 and ending with the close of 30 June 2003.

              Notes
              • Section 290(a)(iii): amended, on , by section 33(1) of the Building and Construction (Small Stand-alone Dwellings) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 59).
              • Section 290(aa): inserted, on , by section 33(2) of the Building and Construction (Small Stand-alone Dwellings) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 59).
              • Section 290(b): amended, on , by section 33(3) of the Building and Construction (Small Stand-alone Dwellings) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 59).