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Resource Management Act 1991

Declarations, enforcement, and ancillary powers - Emergency works

330A: Resource consents for emergency works

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"Getting permission for urgent work that might affect the environment"

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If you do emergency works under section 330, you must tell the consent authority within 7 days. You must do this if you are not the occupier, or if you are an authority, network utility operator, or lifeline utility. You need to say that the emergency works have been done. If the emergency works would normally break rules in sections 9, 12, 13, 14, or 15, and they are still causing problems, you must apply for resource consents. You have 30 working days to do this after you tell the consent authority. You can keep doing the emergency works until your application and any appeals are finished. If you apply for resource consents on time, you can keep doing the emergency works. This is until the consent authority makes a decision and any appeals are finished.

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Part 12Declarations, enforcement, and ancillary powers
Emergency works

330AResource consents for emergency works

  1. Where an activity is undertaken under section 330, the person (other than the occupier), authority, network utility operator, or lifeline utility who or which undertook the activity shall advise the appropriate consent authority, within 7 days, that the activity has been undertaken.

  2. Where such an activity, but for section 330, contravenes any of sections 9, 12, 13, 14, and 15 and the adverse effects of the activity continue, then the person (other than the occupier), authority, network utility operator, or lifeline utility who or which undertook the activity shall apply in writing to the appropriate consent authority for any necessary resource consents required in respect of the activity within 30 working days of the notification under subsection (1).

  3. If the application is made within the time stated in subsection (2), the activity may continue until the application for a resource consent and any appeals have been finally determined.

Notes
  • Section 330A: inserted, on , by section 151 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).
  • Section 330A(1): amended, on , by section 57 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 63).
  • Section 330A(1): amended, on , by section 121(1)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).
  • Section 330A(1): amended, on , by section 121(1)(b) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).
  • Section 330A(2): amended, on , by section 79 of the Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 41).
  • Section 330A(2): amended, on , by section 57 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 63).
  • Section 330A(2): amended, on , by section 121(2)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).
  • Section 330A(2): amended, on , by section 121(2)(b) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).