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358: Appeals against certain decisions or objections
or “You can challenge decisions about objections by taking them to a special court.”
You could also call this:

“Regional councils collect money from resource consent holders and put it in the government's bank account.”

If you are given permission to use natural resources through a resource consent, you might have to pay money for this. This money could be rent, royalties, or other types of payments. The law says this money belongs to the government.

Your regional council has two jobs when it comes to this money:

  1. They must collect the money from you and others who have resource consents in your area.

  2. After collecting the money, they must put it into a special government bank account. They do this following the rules set out in another law called the Public Finance Act 1989.

Remember, the regional council is just collecting this money for the government. They don’t get to keep it for themselves.

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or “ The Governor-General can make rules about how to use and manage land, water, and other resources. These rules can cover things like forms, fees, and how to protect the environment. ”
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Part 14 Miscellaneous provisions
Rights of objection

359Regional councils to pay rents, royalties, and other money received into Crown Bank Account

  1. All rents, royalties, and other sums of money which the holders of resource consents are, by virtue of any authorisation granted under section 161 or any regulations made under section 360(1)(c), required to pay, shall be the property of the Crown and every regional council shall—

  2. collect and receive from the holders of such resource consents in its region, all such rents, royalties, and other sums of money on behalf of the Crown; and
    1. pay that money into a Crown Bank Account in accordance with the Public Finance Act 1989.

      Notes
      • Section 359(b): amended, on , pursuant to section 65R(3) of the Public Finance Act 1989 (1989 No 44).