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428: Environment Court
or “This section explains how judges and other members of the special court for environmental matters keep their jobs when new laws start.”
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“Keeping the right to ask for money if you were hurt before the new law started”

If you had a claim for compensation under a law that this new Resource Management Act has replaced, you don’t need to worry. You can still make that claim or continue with a claim you’ve already started. It’s as if the old law is still in place for your claim. This applies to any claims you could have made or did make just before this new Act came into effect. You can carry on with your claim exactly as you would have under the old law.

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Part 15 Transitional provisions
Miscellaneous provisions

429Savings as to compensation claims

  1. Where, immediately before the date of commencement of this Act, any claim for compensation under any enactment repealed by this Act has been or could be made, that claim may be made or continued and enforced in all respects as if this Act had not been enacted.