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Resource Management Act 1991

Resource consents - Public notification and limited notification of applications

95: Time limit for public notification or limited notification

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“Rules for deciding how quickly the government must tell people about requests to use land or resources”

When you apply for a resource consent, the consent authority needs to decide if they should tell the public about your application. They have to make this decision within a certain time.

If your application is a fast-track one, the consent authority has 10 working days to decide. For all other applications, they have 20 working days. This time starts from the day you first give them your application.

The consent authority has to look at sections 95A and 95B to decide if they need to tell everyone about your application (public notification) or just some people (limited notification). If they decide to notify people, they must do it within the same time limit.

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Part 6 Resource consents
Public notification and limited notification of applications

95Time limit for public notification or limited notification

  1. A consent authority must, within the time limit specified in subsection (2),—

  2. decide, in accordance with sections 95A and 95B, whether to give public or limited notification of an application for a resource consent; and
    1. notify the application if it decides to do so.

      1. The time limit is,—

      2. in the case of a fast-track application, 10 working days after the day the application is first lodged; and
        1. in the case of any other application, 20 working days after the day the application is first lodged.

          Notes
          • Section 95: replaced, on , by section 137 of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).