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Resource Management Act 1991

Occupation of common marine and coastal area - Managing occupation in common marine and coastal area - Ministerial power to direct applications for coastal permits to undertake aquaculture activities in common marine and coastal area to be processed and heard together

165ZF: Regional council may request direction to process and hear together applications for permits to occupy common marine and coastal area for purpose of aquaculture activities

You could also call this:

“A council can ask the government to group together and review sea farming requests in one area at the same time.”

If you’re part of a regional council, you can ask the Minister of Aquaculture for help in some special cases. You might want to do this if you think it would be better to look at and decide on multiple requests for coastal permits at the same time. This is mainly about permits for aquaculture activities in shared sea areas.

You can make this request if two things are true. First, you believe that dealing with these permits together would be more efficient and help you better understand and manage their combined effects. Second, you think that your current regional plans don’t have good enough rules for handling these permits efficiently.

When you make this request, you need to give some specific information. You have to say which sea area you’re talking about, what kind of aquaculture activities are involved, and which applications you want to be considered together. You also need to explain why you think this would be a better way to handle these applications.

The Minister of Aquaculture can then decide whether to tell your regional council to process and hear these applications together. This is a way to make sure that shared sea areas are used wisely for aquaculture.

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Part 7A Occupation of common marine and coastal area
Managing occupation in common marine and coastal area: Ministerial power to direct applications for coastal permits to undertake aquaculture activities in common marine and coastal area to be processed and heard together

165ZFRegional council may request direction to process and hear together applications for permits to occupy common marine and coastal area for purpose of aquaculture activities

  1. This section applies if, in a regional council’s opinion,—

  2. processing and hearing together applications for coastal permits to occupy space in a common marine and coastal area for the purpose of aquaculture activities would be more efficient and would enable better assessment and management of cumulative effects of the permits; and
    1. a regional coastal plan or proposed regional council plan does not provide adequately for efficient processing and assessment and management of the cumulative effects of permits to occupy the common marine and coastal area for the purpose of the aquaculture activities.

      1. The regional council may request the Minister of Aquaculture to direct the regional council to process and hear together applications for coastal permits to occupy the space for the purpose of aquaculture activities.

      2. A request under subsection (2) must—

      3. specify—
        1. the space in the common marine and coastal area it is proposed the direction will apply to; and
          1. the aquaculture activities that it is proposed the direction will apply to; and
            1. the applications or classes of applications it is proposed that the direction will apply to; and
            2. be accompanied by information about why it would be more efficient and would enable better assessment and management of the cumulative effects of coastal permits to occupy the common marine and coastal area for the purposes of aquaculture activities if the direction were made.

              Notes
              • Section 165ZF: replaced, on , by section 49 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 70).