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43AAB: Meaning of district rule and regional rule
or “Rules made by local councils for their areas and regions”
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“A proposed plan is a new or changed plan that has been shared but isn't officially in use yet.”

In this law, a proposed plan means a plan that the local council has suggested but hasn’t become official yet. This can be a new plan, a change to an existing plan, or a variation to a proposed plan. The council must have told people about it publicly or given limited notice about it to certain people.

A proposed plan can also be a plan or change that someone else suggested, which the council has decided to use. It can also be a special kind of plan called an IPI that the council has told people about in a specific way.

There are some rules about when these proposed plans start to have an effect. You can find these rules in other parts of the law.

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Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans

43AACMeaning of proposed plan

  1. In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires, proposed plan—

  2. means a proposed plan, a variation to a proposed plan or change, or a change to a plan proposed by a local authority that has been notified under clause 5 of Schedule 1 or given limited notification under clause 5A of that schedule, but has not become operative in terms of clause 20 of that schedule; and
    1. includes—
      1. a proposed plan or a change to a plan proposed by a person under Part 2 of Schedule 1 that has been adopted by the local authority under clause 25(2)(a) of Schedule 1:
        1. an IPI notified in accordance with section 80F(1) or (2).

        2. Subsection (1) is subject to section 86B and clause 10(5) of Schedule 1.

        Notes
        • Section 43AAC: inserted, on , by section 42 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).
        • Section 43AAC(1)(a): amended, on , by section 26(a) of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).
        • Section 43AAC(1)(a): amended, on , by section 26(b) of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).
        • Section 43AAC(1)(b): replaced, on , by section 6 of the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 59).