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Resource Management Act 1991

Interpretation and application

2A: Successors

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“What happens when someone is replaced by someone else in the Resource Management Act”

When you read the Resource Management Act 1991, you will see references to a person. This can include someone who has applied for something or someone who has been given consent for something. The Act also includes the successor of that person, which means someone who takes their place.

If a group of people are involved, and they are not a formal company, their successor can be a company made up of mostly the same people. You can find more information about how this section was added to the Act by looking at the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996. This helps you understand who is included when the Act talks about a person or their successor.

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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).