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Resource Management Act 1991

Standards, policy statements, and plans - National direction - National planning standards

58B: Purposes of national planning standards

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“National planning standards help make rules about how to use land and protect the environment”

National planning standards have specific purposes that you should know about. They are meant to help achieve the goals of the Resource Management Act. These standards set out rules about how regional policy statements and plans should be structured, formatted, and what they should contain.

The Minister can use these standards to make sure certain things are consistent across the country. They can also use them to support the implementation of national environmental standards, policy statements, and regulations. Additionally, these standards can help people follow the procedural principles outlined in section 18A.

It’s important to note that when dealing with matters related to the coastal marine area, any mention of ‘the Minister’ in this section and sections 58C to 58K refers to the Minister of Conservation.

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Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
National direction: National planning standards

58BPurposes of national planning standards

  1. The purposes of national planning standards are—

  2. to assist in achieving the purpose of this Act; and
    1. to set out requirements or other provisions relating to any aspect of the structure, format, or content of regional policy statements and plans to address any matter that the Minister considers—
      1. requires national consistency:
        1. is required to support the implementation of a national environmental standard, a national policy statement, a New Zealand coastal policy statement, or regulations made under this Act:
          1. is required to assist people to comply with the procedural principles set out in section 18A.

          2. In this section and sections 58C to 58K, references to the Minister are to be read as references to the Minister of Conservation if, and to the extent that, a matter relates to the coastal marine area.

          Notes
          • Section 58B: inserted, on , by section 50 of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).