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253: Eligibility for appointment as Environment Commissioner or Deputy Environment Commissioner
or “The Attorney-General chooses people with different skills to help make decisions about the environment.”
You could also call this:

“The Governor-General chooses people to help decide about the environment for up to 5 years.”

The Governor-General can appoint someone as an Environment Commissioner or Deputy Environment Commissioner for the Environment Court. This appointment can last up to 5 years. Before making the appointment, the Attorney-General needs to talk to the Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Māori Development.

You can be appointed as an Environment Commissioner or Deputy Environment Commissioner more than once. There’s no limit to how many times you can be reappointed.

There’s no set number of Environment Commissioners or Deputy Environment Commissioners. Any number of them can be in office at the same time.

If your term as an Environment Commissioner or Deputy Environment Commissioner ends and you’re not reappointed, you can keep working until someone new takes over. This is true even if the time you were originally appointed for has finished.

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Part 11 Environment Court
Environment Commissioners and Deputy Environment Commissioners

254Appointment of Environment Commissioner or Deputy Environment Commissioner

  1. The Governor-General may, on the recommendation of the Attorney-General, after consultation with the Minister for the Environment and the Minister for Māori Development, appoint a person as an Environment Commissioner or a Deputy Environment Commissioner of the Environment Court for a period not exceeding 5 years.

  2. A person may be reappointed as an Environment Commissioner or a Deputy Environment Commissioner any number of times.

  3. At any one time any number of Environment Commissioners or Deputy Environment Commissioners may hold office.

  4. If an Environment Commissioner or Deputy Environment Commissioner is not reappointed, he or she may continue in office until his or her successor comes into office, notwithstanding that the term for which he or she was appointed may have expired.

Notes
  • Section 254 heading: amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(c) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).
  • Section 254(1): amended, on , by section 73 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 30).
  • Section 254(1): amended, on , by section 5 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 46).
  • Section 254(1): amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).
  • Section 254(1): amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(c) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).
  • Section 254(2): amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(c) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).
  • Section 254(3): replaced, on , by section 9 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).
  • Section 254(4): inserted, on , by section 9 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).