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Resource Management Act 1991

Resource consents - Submissions on applications

96: Making submissions

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“People can give their opinions about building plans to the government”

You can make a submission about a resource consent application if it’s publicly notified. Anyone can make a submission, but there are some limits if you’re defined as ‘person A’ in section 308A and the applicant is defined as ‘person B’ in the same section.

If the resource consent application has limited notification, you can make a submission if you’ve been served with a notice about it. Again, there are limits if you’re ‘person A’ and the applicant is ‘person B’ as defined in section 308A.

Your submission must be in the correct form. You need to send it to the consent authority within the time allowed by section 97. You also need to send it to the applicant as soon as you can after sending it to the consent authority.

In your submission, you can say if you support the application, oppose it, or if you’re neutral about it.

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Part 6 Resource consents
Submissions on applications

96Making submissions

  1. If an application for a resource consent is publicly notified, a person described in subsection (2) may make a submission about it to the consent authority.

  2. Any person may make a submission, but the person's right to make a submission is limited by section 308B if the person is a person A as defined in section 308A and the applicant is a person B as defined in section 308A.

  3. If an application for a resource consent is the subject of limited notification, a person described in subsection (4) may make a submission about it to the consent authority.

  4. A person served with notice of the application may make a submission, but the person's right to make a submission is limited by section 308B if the person is a person A as defined in section 308A and the applicant is a person B as defined in section 308A.

  5. A submission must be in the prescribed form.

  6. A submission must be served—

  7. on the consent authority within the time allowed by section 97; and
    1. on the applicant as soon as is reasonably practicable after service on the consent authority.

      1. A submission may state whether—

      2. it supports the application; or
        1. it opposes the application; or
          1. it is neutral.

            Notes
            • Section 96: replaced, on , by section 77 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).