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Resource Management Act 1991

Resource consents - Streamlining decision-making on resource consents

87H: Residual powers of consent authority

You could also call this:

“The local council can still manage a project even if a special court made the decision about it”

If the Environment Court makes a decision on a resource consent application instead of the usual consent authority, you should know that the original consent authority still keeps some powers. This means that the consent authority can handle all the tasks, responsibilities, and powers related to that resource consent, just as if they had given the consent themselves. It’s like if your friend made a decision for you, but you still get to manage everything that comes after that decision.

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Environment and resources > Town planning
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Part 6 Resource consents
Streamlining decision-making on resource consents

87HResidual powers of consent authority

  1. The consent authority that would have determined the application had the Environment Court not done so under section 87G has all the functions, duties, and powers in relation to a resource consent granted by the court as if it had granted the consent itself.

Notes
  • Section 87H: inserted, on , by section 69 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).