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Resource Management Act 1991

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

47: Board of inquiry

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“A special group of people is chosen to look into and explain new important rules for the country”

When a new national direction is proposed, the Minister must create a board of inquiry to look into it and provide a report. This board is responsible for examining the proposed direction and giving feedback.

The Minister can decide how the board should operate. They can set the rules for what the board needs to do and how they should do it. The Minister also gets to choose how much the board members will be paid for their work.

If you’re on the board of inquiry, you don’t have to worry about getting in trouble for honest mistakes. As long as you’re doing your job in good faith and trying your best, you won’t be held responsible for any accidental errors or things you might forget to do while performing your duties on the board.

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

47Board of inquiry

  1. The Minister must appoint a board of inquiry to inquire into, and report on, the proposed national direction.

  2. The Minister may, as the Minister sees fit,—

  3. set terms of reference for the board of inquiry; and
    1. set the rate of remuneration to be paid to members of the board of inquiry.

      1. A member of the board of inquiry is not liable for anything the member does, or omits to do, in good faith in performing or exercising the functions, duties, and powers of the board.

      Notes
      • Section 47: replaced, on , by section 20 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 23).
      • Section 47(1): amended, on , by section 39 of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).
      • Section 47(3): inserted, on , by section 47 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).