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Resource Management Act 1991

Transitional provisions - Transitional resource consents

383: Existing permissions to become land use consents

You could also call this:

“Old permissions for using land are now treated as new land use consents with the same rules.”

If you had permission to use land in a certain way before the Resource Management Act 1991 started, you can keep using it that way. Your old permission becomes a new ‘land use consent’ under the new law. This applies to permissions given under Parts 2, 4, and 5 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1977, or similar older laws. The new consent has the same rules as your old permission, as long as those rules don’t clash with the new law. Your local council (called a territorial authority) is now in charge of this consent. The new law applies to how this consent works from now on.

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Environment and resources > Town planning
Environment and resources > Land use
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Part 15 Transitional provisions
Transitional resource consents

383Existing permissions to become land use consents

  1. Every permission—

  2. granted under any of Parts 2, 4, and 5 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1977 (or the corresponding provisions of any former enactment) in respect of any area in a district; and
    1. in force immediately before the date of commencement of this Act—
        1. shall be deemed to be a land use consent granted under this Act on the same conditions (including those set out in any enactment whether or not repealed or revoked by this Act, except to the extent that they are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act) by the appropriate territorial authority; and the provisions of this Act shall apply accordingly.