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58I: Local authority recognition of national planning standards
or “Councils must follow rules for making their planning documents match the national standards”
You could also call this:

“This explains when councils must update their plans to match the new national rules.”

You need to know about the time frames for the first set of national planning standards. These are rules that local authorities must follow when making changes to their planning documents.

If a local authority needs to use a process outlined in Schedule 1, they must make the required changes within five years from when the first set of standards is officially announced in the Gazette. However, there are two exceptions to this rule:

  1. The standards themselves might specify a different time frame.
  2. A special case applies if the local authority has already notified a proposed policy statement or plan before the first set of standards is announced.

In the special case, if the local authority has already notified a proposed policy statement or plan, they must make the required changes either:

  1. Within the time specified in the national planning standard, or
  2. If no time is specified, within 5 years after their proposed policy statement or plan becomes active.

These rules help ensure that local authorities update their planning documents to match the national standards within a reasonable time frame.

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

58JTime frames applying under first set of national planning standards

  1. In the case of the first set of national planning standards, if a process provided by Schedule 1 is required, a local authority must make any amendments required not later than the fifth anniversary of the date on which the first set is notified in the Gazette under section 58K, unless—

  2. a different time is specified in the first set; or
    1. subsection (3) applies.

      1. Subsection (3) applies if—

      2. a local authority has notified a proposed policy statement or plan before the first set of national planning standards is notified in the Gazette; and
        1. a process provided by Schedule 1 is required.

          1. If this subsection applies, the local authority must make the amendments required—

          2. within the time specified in the national planning standard; or
            1. if no time is specified, not later than 5 years after the date on which the proposed policy statement or plan becomes operative.

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