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378: Proceedings in relation to plans
or “This explains how plans and changes to plans are dealt with when laws change”
You could also call this:

“This law explains how to figure out if certain rules are part of a plan and what kinds of activities they allow.”

You can ask the Environment Court to make a declaration about certain things related to plans. This includes whether parts of some documents are considered to be part of a plan, and whether any of these parts or parts of a plan are thought to be a rule about an allowed activity, a controlled activity, a discretionary activity, or a non-complying activity. This is added to the list of things you can ask for declarations about in Section 310 of the Resource Management Act.

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or “Old rules from other laws about noise, planning, and air quality stay in place even after this new law starts.”
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Part 15 Transitional provisions
Provisions relating to all plans

379Declarations

  1. Section 310 shall have effect as if the following paragraph were added:

  2. whether provisions of any instrument of a kind referred to in section 368(2) are deemed to constitute provisions of a plan under any of sections 368 and 370, and whether any such provision or any provision of a plan under section 373 is deemed by this Part to be a rule in respect of a permitted activity, a controlled activity, a discretionary activity, or a non-complying activity.

    Notes
    • Section 379: amended, on , by section 173 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).