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Resource Management Act 1991

Standards, policy statements, and plans - National direction - National environmental standards

43C: Relationship between national environmental standards and water conservation orders

You could also call this:

“Rules about which is more important: special water protection orders or national environmental rules for water”

You need to know about how national environmental standards and water conservation orders work together. Sometimes these two things might have different rules about water.

If a water conservation order has stricter rules than a national environmental standard about water, you should follow the water conservation order’s rules.

On the other hand, if a national environmental standard about water has stricter rules than a water conservation order, you should follow the national environmental standard’s rules.

This helps you understand which rules to follow when there are differences between water conservation orders and national environmental standards.

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Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
National direction: National environmental standards

43CRelationship between national environmental standards and water conservation orders

  1. A water conservation order that is more stringent than a national environmental standard applying to water prevails over the standard.

  2. A national environmental standard applying to water that is more stringent than a water conservation order prevails over the order.

Notes
  • Section 43C: replaced, on , by section 29 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).