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Resource Management Act 1991

Designations and heritage orders - Heritage orders

198: Environment Court may order land taken, etc

You could also call this:

“Environment Court can help if a heritage order affects your land use or sale”

You can ask the Environment Court to help if your land has a heritage order on it. The Environment Court can make an order to help you if you own the land and you were the owner when the heritage order was made. You must have tried to sell the land but been unable to do so because of the heritage order.

If the heritage order stops you from using your land, the Environment Court can make an order. This order gives the heritage protection authority a choice: they can either remove the heritage order or take the land using the Public Works Act 1981. Before making an order, the court might tell you to try to sell the land again.

If the court makes an order to take your land, you are considered to have agreed to sell it to the heritage protection authority. This is for the purposes of section 17 of the Public Works Act 1981. If the heritage protection authority is not the government, the Minister for Land Information acts on their behalf.

You get compensation for your land if it is taken. The amount of compensation is worked out as if the heritage order was not on your land. The heritage protection authority must pay the Minister for Land Information back for any costs they incur when taking the land.

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Part 8 Designations and heritage orders
Heritage orders

198Environment Court may order land taken, etc

  1. Upon application made to the Environment Court by the owner of an estate or interest in land (including a leasehold estate or interest) that is subject to a heritage order, or requirement under section 189 or section 189A, if the court is satisfied that—

  2. the applicant was the owner or spouse, civil union partner, or de facto partner of the owner on the date when the heritage order was included in the district plan or the requirement was made; and
    1. the applicant has tried but been unable to enter into an agreement for the sale of the estate or interest in the land subject to the heritage order or requirement at a price not less than the market value the land would have had if it were not subject to the heritage order or requirement; and
      1. the heritage order or requirement renders or will render the land in respect of which it applies, incapable of reasonable use,—
          1. the Environment Court may make an order giving the heritage protection authority the option of either withdrawing the requirement or causing the heritage order to be removed, as the case may be, or taking the land under the Public Works Act 1981.

        1. Before making an order under subsection (1), the court may direct the owner to take further action to try to sell the estate or interest in the land.

        2. If the court makes an order to take an estate or interest in land under the Public Works Act 1981, the owner of the land shall be deemed to have entered into an agreement with the heritage protection authority responsible for the heritage order or requirement for the purposes of section 17 of the Public Works Act 1981.

        3. Where subsection (3) applies in respect of a heritage protection authority that is neither the Crown nor a local authority—

        4. any agreement shall be deemed to have been entered into with the Minister for Land Information on behalf of the heritage protection authority as if the land were required for a government work; and
          1. all costs and expenses incurred by the Minister for Land Information in respect of the acquisition of the land shall be recoverable from the heritage protection authority as a debt due to the Crown.

            1. The amount of compensation payable for an estate or interest in land ordered to be taken under this section shall be assessed as if the heritage order or requirement had not been made.

            Notes
            • Section 198 heading: amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).
            • Section 198(1): amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).
            • Section 198(1): amended, on , by section 109 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).
            • Section 198(1)(a): amended, on , by section 7 of the Relationships (Statutory References) Act 2005 (2005 No 3).
            • Section 198(2): amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).
            • Section 198(3): amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).
            • Section 198(4)(a): amended, on , pursuant to section 2(1) of the Survey Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 55).
            • Section 198(4)(b): amended, on , pursuant to section 2(1) of the Survey Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 55).