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32: Requirements for preparing and publishing evaluation reports
or “Rules for making and sharing reports that check if new plans are good and will work well”
You could also call this:

“Councils must check and share information about changes to their plans”

When you need to do another evaluation under this Act, you only need to look at the changes made since the last evaluation report. You must do this evaluation following the rules in section 32(1) to (4), but you can adjust how detailed you are based on how big and important the changes are.

After you finish the evaluation, you need to share it with the public. You can do this in two ways. You can publish a full report when you announce the approved proposal or decision. Or, you can include enough details about the evaluation in the decision-making record to show that you did it properly.

If you choose to include the details in the decision-making record, you don’t need to prepare a separate evaluation report.

In this section, ‘proposal’ means a suggested statement, national planning standard, plan, or change that needs another evaluation under this Act.

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32AARequirements for undertaking and publishing further evaluations

  1. A further evaluation required under this Act—

  2. is required only for any changes that have been made to, or are proposed for, the proposal since the evaluation report for the proposal was completed (the changes); and
    1. must be undertaken in accordance with section 32(1) to (4); and
      1. must, despite paragraph (b) and section 32(1)(c), be undertaken at a level of detail that corresponds to the scale and significance of the changes; and
        1. must—
          1. be published in an evaluation report that is made available for public inspection at the same time as the approved proposal (in the case of a national policy statement or a New Zealand coastal policy statement or a national planning standard), or the decision on the proposal, is notified; or
            1. be referred to in the decision-making record in sufficient detail to demonstrate that the further evaluation was undertaken in accordance with this section.

            2. To avoid doubt, an evaluation report does not have to be prepared if a further evaluation is undertaken in accordance with subsection (1)(d)(ii).

            3. In this section, proposal means a proposed statement, national planning standard, plan, or change for which a further evaluation must be undertaken under this Act.

            Notes
            • Section 32AA: inserted, on , for all purposes, by section 70 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 63).
            • Section 32AA(1)(d)(i): amended, on , by section 15(1)(a) of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).
            • Section 32AA(1)(d)(i): amended, on , by section 15(1)(b) of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).
            • Section 32AA(3): amended, on , by section 15(2) of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).