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Local Government Act 2002

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

290: Development contributions

You could also call this:

“Rules about when you might need to pay extra money to your local council for building or connecting to services”

You can be asked to pay a development contribution to your local authority. This is allowed under section 198 of the law. However, the local authority can only ask for this payment in certain situations.

The local authority can ask for a development contribution if you’re getting one of these things on or after 1 July 2003:

  • A resource consent
  • A building consent
  • Permission to connect to a service (like water or sewage)

Also, you must have applied for one of these things either:

  • On or after 1 July 2003, or
  • Between 19 December 2001 and 30 June 2003

If your situation doesn’t fit these rules, the local authority can’t ask you for a development contribution.

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Part 12 Consequential 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; and
        2. the application for the resource consent, building, consent, or authorisation—
          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.