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25A: Minister may direct preparation of plan, change, or variation
or “The Environment Minister can tell councils to make or change plans about managing resources”
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“ The government's top leaders can tell local councils to start looking at and updating their plans for managing land and water. ”

This section of the law explains how Ministers can tell regional councils and territorial authorities to start reviewing their plans. The Minister can ask a regional council to review its regional plan, except for the coastal part. The Minister of Conservation can ask a regional council to review its regional coastal plan. The Minister can also ask a territorial authority to review its district plan. When Ministers do this, they must give a fair amount of time for the review to begin. The rules for these reviews are similar to those in section 79(5) to (9), but they might be changed a bit to fit this situation.

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Part 4 Functions, powers, and duties of central and local government
Functions, powers, and duties of Ministers

25BMinisters may direct commencement of review

  1. The Minister may direct a regional council to commence a review of the whole or any part of its regional plan (except its regional coastal plan) and, if he or she does so, must specify a reasonable period within which the review must commence.

  2. The Minister of Conservation may direct a regional council to commence a review of the whole or any part of its regional coastal plan and, if he or she does so, must specify a reasonable period within which the review must commence.

  3. The Minister may direct a territorial authority to commence a review of the whole or any part of its district plan and, if he or she does so, must specify a reasonable period within which the review must commence.

  4. For the purposes of subsections (1) to (3), section 79(5) to (9) apply to the review with any necessary modification.

Notes
  • Section 25B: inserted, on , by section 24 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).