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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 person in charge of the environment can ask local groups for information about how they use their powers.”

The Minister for the Environment can ask certain groups for information. These groups include local authorities, network utility operators approved as requiring authorities, and bodies corporate approved as heritage protection authorities.

The Minister can ask for information that these groups have about how they use their powers and do their jobs under the Resource Management Act. The Minister can only ask for information that they reasonably need.

When the Minister wants this information, they must send a written notice with a date on it. The groups then have to give the Minister the information within 20 working days, or longer if the Minister allows. The groups can’t charge the Minister for giving this information.

This rule helps the Minister get important information about how the Resource Management Act is being used by different groups.

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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).