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Resource Management Act 1991

Declarations, enforcement, and ancillary powers - Declarations

312: Notification of application

You could also call this:

“Telling people who will be affected by your application”

When you apply for a declaration, you must tell every person who will be directly affected by your application. You do this by serving them a notice in a special form. You must give them this notice within 5 working days after you make your application to the court.

You have to serve the notice to everyone who will be affected, and you must do it quickly. The notice has to be in a certain form, which is set out in the rules. You give the notice to the people affected after you have made your application to the court.

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Part 12 Declarations, enforcement, and ancillary powers
Declarations

312Notification of application

  1. The applicant for a declaration shall serve notice of the application in the prescribed form on every person directly affected by the application.

  2. Every notice required to be served under this section shall be served within 5 working days after the application is made to the court.

Notes
  • Section 312(1): amended, on , by section 116(1) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).
  • Section 312(1): amended, on , by section 140 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).
  • Section 312(2): amended, on , pursuant to section 6(2)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).