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Resource Management Act 1991

Designations and heritage orders - Heritage orders

187: Meaning of heritage order and heritage protection authority

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“A heritage order is a rule in a district plan that protects important places, and a heritage protection authority is a person or group who can ask for this protection.”

In this law, a heritage order is a special rule in a district plan. This rule comes from a request made by a heritage protection authority. The request is made under section 189 or section 189A.

A heritage protection authority can be different people or groups. It can be:

Any government minister, including the Minister of Conservation and the Minister for Māori Development. These ministers can act on their own or based on advice from other groups.

A local authority, which can act on its own or based on advice from an iwi authority.

Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, when it’s doing its job to protect historic places.

A company that has been approved as a heritage protection authority under section 188.

These authorities can make requests to protect important heritage places in your area.

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Part 8 Designations and heritage orders
Heritage orders

187Meaning of heritage order and heritage protection authority

  1. In this Act—

    heritage order means a provision made in a district plan to give effect to a requirement made by a heritage protection authority under section 189 or section 189A

      heritage protection authority means—

      1. any Minister of the Crown including—
        1. the Minister of Conservation acting either on his or her own motion or on the recommendation of the New Zealand Conservation Authority, a local conservation board, the New Zealand Fish and Game Council, or a Fish and Game Council; and
          1. the Minister for Māori Development acting either on his or her own motion or on the recommendation of an iwi authority:
          2. a local authority acting either on its own motion or on the recommendation of an iwi authority:
            1. Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, in so far as it carries out its functions under section 13(1)(i) of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014:
              1. a body corporate that is approved as a heritage protection authority under section 188.

              Notes
              • Section 187 heritage order: amended, on , by section 100(1) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).
              • Section 187 heritage protection authority paragraph (a)(ii): amended, on , by section 60 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 30).
              • Section 187 heritage protection authority paragraph (c): replaced, on , by section 107 of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 (2014 No 26).
              • Section 187 heritage protection authority paragraph (d): amended, on , by section 100(2) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).