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Resource Management Act 1991

Standards, policy statements, and plans - Local authority policy statements and plans - Regional plans

64: Preparation and change of regional coastal plans

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“How to make and update plans to protect New Zealand's coastal areas”

For the coastal area of a region, you must have one or more regional coastal plans. These plans are prepared in a specific way, which is set out in Schedule 1. You can include a regional coastal plan as part of a regional plan if it helps manage the coastal area and environment better. When a regional coastal plan is part of a regional plan, the Minister of Conservation only approves the part about the coastal marine area.

A regional coastal plan can be changed, and the way to do this is also set out in Schedule 1. You follow the same process to change a regional coastal plan as you do to prepare one. This helps keep the plans up to date and working well for the coastal area.

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Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
Local authority policy statements and plans: Regional plans

64Preparation and change of regional coastal plans

  1. There shall at all times be, for all the coastal marine area of a region, 1 or more regional coastal plans prepared in the manner set out in Schedule 1.

  2. A regional coastal plan may form part of a regional plan where it is considered appropriate in order to promote the integrated management of a coastal marine area and any related part of the coastal environment.

  3. Where a regional coastal plan forms part of a regional plan, the Minister of Conservation shall approve only that part which relates to the coastal marine area.

  4. A regional coastal plan may be changed in the manner set out in Schedule 1.

Notes
  • Section 64(1): replaced, on , by section 35 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).
  • Section 64(1): amended, on , by section 15 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 70).
  • Section 64(4): amended, on , by section 15 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 70).