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68: Regional rules
or “Regional plans can include rules that act like laws to help manage the environment and natural resources in an area.”
You could also call this:

“Rules for fish farming in the sea can't be automatically allowed without permission.”

You can’t have aquaculture activities in the coastal marine area as permitted activities in a regional coastal plan. This rule started when section 17 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 began.

If there was already a rule allowing aquaculture activities as permitted activities before this change:

People can keep following that rule until it’s changed. But the regional council must review the rule as soon as they can. They have to do this within 2 years of when section 17 started. They need to suggest changes to make sure the rule follows the new law. They must do this using the process in Part 1 of Schedule 1 and this part of the Act.

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Next up: 69: Rules relating to water quality

or “Rules that tell us how to keep water clean and safe for different uses”
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Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
Local authority policy statements and plans: Regional plans

68ARegional coastal plan not to authorise aquaculture activities in coastal marine area as permitted activities

  1. Despite section 68, after the commencement of section 17 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 no rule may be included in a regional coastal plan which authorises as a permitted activity any aquaculture activity in the coastal marine area.

  2. If, immediately before the commencement of section 17 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011, a regional coastal plan contains a rule that authorises as a permitted activity any part of an aquaculture activity in the coastal marine area—

  3. any person may act, or continue to act, in accordance with the rule until any alteration of the rule has legal effect; but
    1. a regional council must, as soon as is reasonably practicable and not later than 2 years after the commencement of section 17 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011, initiate a review of the rule under section 79 and propose to alter any provisions necessary to ensure compliance with subsection (1), in the manner set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 and this Part.

      Notes
      • Section 68A: replaced, on , by section 17 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 70).