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Resource Management Act 1991

Transitional provisions - Miscellaneous provisions

432: Obligation to prepare regional policy statements and coastal plans within 2 years

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“Councils must create plans for their region within 2 years, and tell the public about them.”

If you are a regional council, you must prepare a regional policy statement for your area within 2 years of this law starting. You have to let the public know about your proposed statement. You also have to publicly notify a proposed regional coastal plan or plans for your region by 1 July 1994. If you do what you are supposed to do, you will not be in breach of section 60 or section 64 while you are working on your policy statement or plan. This means you have some time to get your policy statement or plan in place before you can be held responsible for not following these rules.

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Part 15 Transitional provisions
Miscellaneous provisions

432Obligation to prepare regional policy statements and coastal plans within 2 years

  1. Every regional council shall, in accordance with this Act and within 2 years after the date of commencement of this Act, publicly notify a proposed regional policy statement for its region.

  2. Every regional council shall, in accordance with this Act, publicly notify, by 1 July 1994, a proposed regional coastal plan or plans for its region.

  3. A regional council that complies with subsection (1) shall not be in breach of section 60 or section 64, as the case may be, during the period from the date of commencement of this Act until the policy statement or plan becomes operative.

Notes
  • Section 432(1): replaced, on , by section 208 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).
  • Section 432(1A): inserted, on , by section 208 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).