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375: Transitional provisions for public utilities
or “Rules about what utilities can be built without special permission and what needs approval”
You could also call this:

“Plans that existed before are now official and must be shared with everyone.”

You need to know about a rule for plans that automatically became active when the Resource Management Act 1991 started. If you’re in charge of a region or district with one of these plans, you have two important jobs to do.

First, you need to tell everyone about the plan as soon as you can. You’ll make a public announcement that says when the plan became active (which was when the Act started) and what old rules are now part of this new plan. You also need to send this announcement to specific people and groups listed in clause 5 of Schedule 1.

Second, you need to keep copies of the plan in your main office. These copies should be easy for anyone to look at and read. This is part of your duty under section 35 of the Act.

These rules apply to plans that came from sections 368, 370, and 373, or from section 378 of the Act.

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or “Local councils must check and update their old plans by certain deadlines”
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Part 15 Transitional provisions
Provisions relating to all plans

376Transitional plans to be notified and available

  1. The regional council or territorial authority of a region or district for which there is deemed to be a plan by virtue of any of sections 368, 370, and 373 or by virtue of the operation of section 378 shall—

  2. as soon as reasonably practicable, publicly notify the fact that as from the date of commencement of this Act the plan became operative and a description of the instruments or schemes whose provisions are included as provisions of that plan, and send a copy of the notice to every person and authority referred to in clause 5 of Schedule 1; and
    1. keep in accordance with section 35 copies of the plan at its principal office and in a form readily accessible to the public.