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Resource Management Act 1991

Resource consents - Pre-hearing meetings and mediation

99A: Mediation

You could also call this:

"Talking things through: Mediation helps you and others discuss issues when applying for a resource consent"

When you apply for a resource consent, the consent authority can send you to mediation. They can also send people who made submissions on your application to mediation. The authority can do this if you or one of the submitters asks them to, or if they decide to do it themselves. They can only do this if everyone agrees to go to mediation.

The mediation is to help you and the submitters talk about the issues. The authority chooses a person to conduct the mediation, either by delegating the power to mediate under section 34A, or by appointing someone if the authority made the application. This person must tell the authority what happens during the mediation.

The person conducting the mediation reports back to the consent authority about what was decided. You will know what the mediator found out after they talk to the authority.

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Part 6Resource consents
Pre-hearing meetings and mediation

99AMediation

  1. A consent authority may refer to mediation a person who has made an application for a resource consent and some or all of the persons who have made submissions on the application.

  2. The authority may exercise the power in subsection (1)—

  3. either—
    1. at the request of one of the persons; or
      1. on its own initiative; and
      2. only with the consent of all the persons being referred; and
        1. only for the purpose of mediating between the persons on a matter or issue.

          1. Mediation under this section must be conducted by—

          2. a person to whom the authority delegates, under section 34A, the power to mediate; or
            1. a person whom the authority appoints to mediate, if the authority is the person who has made an application for a resource consent.

              1. The person who conducts the mediation must report the outcome of the mediation to the consent authority.

              Notes
              • Section 99A: inserted, on , by section 58 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).