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63: Purpose of regional plans
or “Regional plans help councils do their job and look after the environment, including coastal areas.”
You could also call this:

“Rules for making and updating plans to manage coastal areas”

You need to have one or more regional coastal plans for all the coastal marine areas in your region. These plans are made following the steps in Schedule 1.

You can make a regional coastal plan part of a bigger regional plan. This is a good idea if you want to manage the coastal marine area and related coastal environment together.

If a regional coastal plan is part of a bigger regional plan, only the Minister of Conservation can approve the part about the coastal marine area.

You can change a regional coastal plan by following the steps in Schedule 1.

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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).