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43E: Relationship between national environmental standards and bylaws
or “Local rules can sometimes be stricter or more relaxed than national rules, depending on what the national rules say.”
You could also call this:

“This rule explains how the government can describe different types of pollution in their environmental rules.”

When the government creates national environmental standards for activities that involve discharges, they can describe these discharges in two ways:

  1. They can talk about specific pollutants or where these pollutants come from in the discharge.

  2. They can describe the situations or sources that cause the discharge.

These descriptions help everyone understand what kind of discharges the standards are talking about.

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Next up: 43G: Incorporation of material by reference in national environmental standards

or “Rules can include information from other sources to help explain environmental standards.”
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Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
National direction: National environmental standards

43FDescription of discharges in national environmental standards for discharges

  1. A national environmental standard for an activity that is a discharge may describe the discharge by referring to—

  2. particular contaminants or sources of contaminants in a discharge; or
    1. the circumstances or sources of a discharge.

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