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Resource Management Act 1991

Resource consents - Hearings

101: Hearing date and notice

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“When and where a hearing about your resource consent application will happen, and who gets told about it.”

When you apply for a resource consent, a hearing might be held. The consent authority will decide when and where the hearing will take place. If your application was not notified, the hearing will start within 35 working days of your application being lodged. The consent authority will give you and others involved at least 10 working days’ notice of the hearing date, time, and place.

The notice will go to you, the applicant, and to people who made a submission and want to be heard. If there is a joint hearing under section 102, the consent authorities will make sure all applicants and submitters know about the joint hearing. You will be told when and where the hearing will take place, so you can be there if you want to.

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Part 6 Resource consents
Hearings

101Hearing date and notice

  1. If a hearing of an application for a resource consent is to be held, the consent authority shall fix a commencement date and time, and the place, of the hearing.

  2. If the application was not notified, the date for the commencement of the hearing must be within 35 working days after the date the application was first lodged with the consent authority.

  3. Repealed

  4. The consent authority shall give at least 10 working days' notice of the commencement date and time, and the place, of a hearing of an application for a resource consent to—

  5. the applicant; and
    1. every person who made a submission on the application stating his or her wish to be heard and who has not subsequently advised that he or she does not wish to be heard.

      1. Where a joint hearing is to be held under section 102 the consent authorities concerned shall ensure that every applicant and every person who made a submission is aware of the joint hearing.

      Notes
      • Section 101(2): replaced, on , by section 101 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 63).
      • Section 101(2A): repealed, on , by section 79 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).
      • Section 101(4): amended, on , by section 51(3) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).