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Resource Management Act 1991

Declarations, enforcement, and ancillary powers - Infringement offences

343D: Entitlement to infringement fees

You could also call this:

“Who gets to keep the money from fines when someone breaks the rules”

When you break a rule in the Resource Management Act 1991, you might have to pay a fine called an infringement fee. The money from these fines goes to different places depending on who gave you the fine.

If a local authority officer (like someone from your city council) gave you the fine, the local authority gets to keep all the money from that fine.

But if an officer from the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) gave you the fine, the money goes to the government instead. It’s put into a special bank account that belongs to the Crown (which means the government).

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Part 12 Declarations, enforcement, and ancillary powers
Infringement offences

343DEntitlement to infringement fees

  1. A local authority shall be entitled to retain all infringement fees received by it in respect of infringement offences where the infringement notice was issued by an enforcement officer of that authority.

  2. However, any infringement fee relating to an infringement notice issued by an enforcement officer appointed by the EPA must be paid into a Crown Bank Account.

Notes
  • Section 343D(1): inserted, on , by section 18 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996 (1996 No 160).
  • Section 343D(2): inserted, on , by section 95 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 30).