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Resource Management Act 1991

Functions, powers, and duties of central and local government - Functions, powers, and duties of Ministers

27: Minister may require local authorities to supply information

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“The Minister can ask local groups for information they need to do their job.”

The Minister for the Environment can ask certain groups to give them information. You are part of a group that might get asked if you work for a local authority, a network utility operator, or a body corporate that looks after heritage protection. The Minister can only ask for information that is about what your group does under the Resource Management Act.

The Minister must ask for the information in a written notice that has a date on it. If you get a notice, you have to give the Minister the information within 20 working days, or a longer time if the Minister says so. You cannot charge the Minister for giving them the information.

The information the Minister asks for must be something your group has and is about what your group does under the Resource Management Act. The Minister can only ask for information that they really need, and you have to give it to them if they ask for it in the right way, as stated in the Resource Management Act 1991 and amended by the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005.

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Part 4 Functions, powers, and duties of central and local government
Functions, powers, and duties of Ministers

27Minister may require local authorities to supply information

  1. The Minister for the Environment may require the bodies described in subsection (2) to supply the information described in subsection (3).

  2. The bodies are—

  3. a local authority; and
    1. a network utility operator approved as a requiring authority; and
      1. a body corporate approved as a heritage protection authority.

        1. The information is information to which all the following apply:

        2. it is about the body's exercise of any of its functions, powers, or duties under this Act; and
          1. it is held by the body; and
            1. it may reasonably be required by the Minister.

              1. The Minister must require the information in a notice that—

              2. is in writing; and
                1. is dated.

                  1. The body—

                  2. must supply the Minister with the information within—
                    1. 20 working days of the date of the notice; or
                      1. a longer time set by the Minister; and
                      2. must not charge the Minister for the supply.

                        Notes
                        • Section 27: replaced, on , by section 9 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).