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Resource Management Act 1991

Resource consents - Hearings

103: Combined hearings in respect of 2 or more applications

You could also call this:

“Hearing all your applications together for the same project”

When you apply for resource consents for the same project, the consent authority will usually hear all your applications together. You will have one hearing for all your applications unless the consent authority thinks they are not related, and you agree to have separate hearings. The consent authority makes this decision.

If the consent authority is making decisions about other matters related to your project, they will also hear these together. This means you will have one hearing for all the related matters. The consent authority is in charge of this process.

If the consent authority asks hearings commissioners to make decisions, and your matters are being heard together, the same commissioners will hear all of your matters. This is because the consent authority has delegated their powers to the commissioners, as stated in section 100A. The commissioners will make decisions on all the related matters.

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Part 6 Resource consents
Hearings

103Combined hearings in respect of 2 or more applications

  1. Where 2 or more applications for resource consents in relation to the same proposal have been made to a consent authority, and that consent authority has decided to hear the applications, the consent authority shall hear and decide those applications together unless—

  2. the consent authority is of the opinion that the applications are sufficiently unrelated so that it is unnecessary to hear and decide the applications together; and
    1. the applicant agrees that a combined hearing need not be held.

      1. This section shall also apply to any other matter the consent authority is empowered to decide or recommend on under this Act in relation to the same proposal.

      2. If a consent authority delegates its functions, powers, and duties in relation to a matter to 1 or more hearings commissioners in accordance with section 100A, and the matter is to be heard and decided together with other matters under this section, then all of the matters must be heard and decided by those commissioners.

      Notes
      • Section 103(2): inserted, on , by section 53 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).
      • Section 103(3): inserted, on , by section 81 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).