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58E: Approval of national planning standard
or “The Minister checks reports, makes changes if needed, and decides whether to approve or withdraw the planning rules.”
You could also call this:

“The Minister must make sure everyone can easily find and use the rules for planning in New Zealand”

The Minister must make sure that all national planning standards are published together in a way that helps people use them. The Minister also needs to give copies of these standards to every local authority.

You can find all the national planning standards, along with reports and recommendations about them, on a website that anyone can access for free. The Minister might also share this information in other ways if they think it’s a good idea.

When the Minister receives reports and recommendations about the national planning standards under section 58D(3)(d), they need to publish these too.

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Next up: 58G: First set of national planning standards

or “The first set of rules for how plans and policies should be written and organised”
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Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
National direction: National planning standards

58FPublication of national planning standards and other documents

  1. The Minister must ensure that—

    1. all national planning standards are published together in an integrated format that will assist the implementation of the national planning standards; and
      1. copies of all national planning standards are provided to every local authority.

        1. The Minister must publish all the national planning standards and the reports and any recommendations on them made to the Minister under section 58D(3)(d) on an Internet site to which the public has free access, and may publish the national planning standards and the reports and recommendations in any other way or form that the Minister considers appropriate.

        Notes
        • Section 58F: inserted, on , by section 50 of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).
        • Section 58F(1)(a): repealed, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).