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Resource Management Act 1991

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47A: Board of inquiry to suspend consideration or consider additional material

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“The Minister can pause or add information to a group's review of important rules.”

You need to know about a rule for when a board of inquiry is looking at national policy statements. The Minister can do two things before the board gives its report:

  1. The Minister can tell the board to pause their work for a while. This might be until a certain time or until something specific happens. For example, the Minister might want the board to wait until they get some new information to look at.

  2. The Minister can give the board extra information to think about.

If the Minister tells the board to pause their work, they have to tell everyone about it. They need to explain why they’re doing this.

When the Minister says to pause, the board must stop their work as they’re told.

This rule is in section 47A of the law.

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Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
National direction: National policy statements

47ABoard of inquiry to suspend consideration or consider additional material

  1. The Minister may, at any time before a board of inquiry reports to the Minister under section 51(2), do either or both of the following:

  2. direct the board to suspend its inquiry for a specified period or until a specified event occurs (for example, until the Minister provides the board with additional material):
    1. provide the board with additional material to consider.

      1. The Minister must give public notice of a direction under subsection (1)(a), including the reasons for the direction.

      2. A board of inquiry must suspend its inquiry in accordance with a direction under subsection (1)(a).

      Notes
      • Section 47A: inserted, on , by section 48 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).