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2AC: Availability of documents
or “This law tells us how government papers can be shared with people online instead of in person.”
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“This law explains that when it talks about a person, it also means anyone who takes over from that person.”

When this law talks about a person, it means not just that person but also anyone who comes after them or takes their place. This applies to any mention of a person in the law, no matter how they are described. For example, if the law mentions an applicant or someone who holds a consent, it also includes whoever replaces them later.

If the person mentioned is actually a group of people that isn’t officially registered as a company (this is called ‘unincorporate’), then their successor can be a similar group that is officially registered as a company (which is called ‘corporate’). This new group needs to have mostly the same members as the original group to count as a successor.

These rules help make sure that the law still works even when people or groups change over time.

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Part 1 Interpretation and application

2ASuccessors

  1. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, any reference to a person, however described or referred to (including applicant and consent holder), includes the successor of that person.

  2. For the purposes of this Act, where the person is a body of persons which is unincorporate, the successor shall include a body of persons which is corporate and composed of substantially the same members.

Notes
  • Section 2A: inserted, on , by section 3 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).