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Resource Management Act 1991

Standards, policy statements, and plans - National direction - Publication of documents

58K: Obligation to publish documents

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“Local councils must put their planning papers on a free website within a year of getting new rules.”

Within one year after the first set of national planning standards is approved and published in the Gazette, your local authority must make all documents for your district or region available to you. You can access these documents for free on a single website where you can search for the information you need. This means you can easily find and read important planning documents about your area without having to pay or visit multiple websites.

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Part 5 Standards, policy statements, and plans
National direction: Publication of documents

58KObligation to publish documents

  1. Not later than 1 year after the date on which the approval of the first set of national planning standards is notified in the Gazette, a local authority must make its documents publicly available, free of charge on a single searchable Internet site, as they relate to a particular district or region.

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