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165N: Minister may approve use of allocation method
or “The Minister can decide if and how to allow special ways of giving out permits for using coastal areas.”
You could also call this:

“The Minister decides how long the special way of giving out permits can be used.”

When the Minister approves a way to hand out permissions for using coastal space, this approval starts when it’s announced in the Gazette. It keeps working until one of these things happens:

  1. The approval reaches its end date, which is written in the Gazette. The Minister can change this date if needed.

  2. The approval stops working because of what it says in [section 165P(2)].

  3. The Minister cancels the approval by putting a new notice in the Gazette.

The Minister can cancel the approval if the regional council asks for it and the Minister thinks that either:

  • There’s no longer a lot of people wanting to use the coastal space, or
  • The regional council has other good ways to manage lots of people wanting to use the coastal space.

The Minister can also change the end date of the approval if the regional council asks and the Minister thinks that:

  • There are still lots of people wanting to use the coastal space, and
  • The regional council doesn’t have other good ways to manage this.

To make these changes, the Minister has to put a notice in the Gazette.

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Next up: 165P: Offer of authorisations where approved by Minister

or “The government tells local councils how to give out special permissions for using parts of the sea and coast.”
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Part 7A Occupation of common marine and coastal area
Managing occupation in common marine and coastal area: Ministerial approval of use of method of allocating authorisations

165OPeriod of approval

  1. An approval to use a public tender or other method to allocate authorisations applies on and from the date on which the relevant Gazette notice is published until the earliest of the following dates:

  2. the date on which it is expressed in the relevant Gazette notice to expire or any date substituted under subsection (3); or
    1. the date it lapses under section 165P(2); or
      1. the date it is revoked by a further notice in the Gazette under subsection (2).

        1. The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, revoke an approval to use a public tender or other allocation method to allocate authorisations if the Minister—

        2. is requested to do so by the regional council; and
          1. considers that—
            1. there are no longer actual or likely high demand or competing demands for coastal permits to occupy the space for the relevant activity or activities; or
              1. the regional council has in place other methods that will satisfactorily manage actual or likely high demand or competing demands for coastal permits to occupy the space for the relevant activity or activities.

              2. The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, substitute another date in the relevant Gazette notice for the date on which the relevant Gazette notice is to expire if—

              3. the Minister receives a request from the regional council to do so; and
                1. the Minister considers that—
                  1. there remains actual or likely high demand or competing demands for coastal permits to occupy the space for the relevant activity or activities; and
                    1. the regional council does not have in place other methods that will satisfactorily manage the high demand or competing demands.

                    Notes
                    • Section 165O: replaced, on , by section 49 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 70).