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Resource Management Act 1991

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32AA: Requirements for undertaking and publishing further evaluations

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"Checking and sharing the effects of changes to plans and proposals"

If you are making changes to a proposal, you need to do a further evaluation. This evaluation is only for the changes you have made or are proposing. You must do the evaluation in accordance with section 32(1) to (4).

You have to do the evaluation in a way that matches the size and importance of the changes. When you finish the evaluation, you must make the results available to the public. You can do this by publishing a report or by including the details in the decision-making record.

In this case, a proposal means a regional policy statement, plan, or change that needs a further evaluation under this Act. If you are referring to the evaluation in the decision-making record, you do not have to prepare a separate evaluation report.

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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 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 regional policy statement, 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): replaced, on , by section 6(1) of the Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 43).
            • Section 32AA(3): amended, on , by section 6(2) of the Resource Management (Freshwater and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 43).