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Resource Management Act 1991

Standards, policy statements, and plans - National direction - Wastewater and stormwater environmental performance standards

58JC: Plan may permit effects that wastewater or stormwater environmental performance standard does not deal with

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"A plan can allow activities and set rules for effects not covered by wastewater or stormwater standards."

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You can do an activity if a wastewater or stormwater environmental performance standard says you can. The standard might say you do not need a resource consent for the activity. A plan can allow the activity and set conditions for any effects that the standard does not cover. You can look at the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 for more information. A plan can set conditions for effects that are different from those in the standard. However, if the standard says something different, then the plan must follow the standard. A plan can help manage the effects of an activity that are not covered by the standard. This means you can do the activity and the plan will set rules for any effects that are not in the standard. The plan's rules will apply if the standard does not say anything about those effects.

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Part 5Standards, policy statements, and plans
National direction: Wastewater and stormwater environmental performance standards

58JCPlan may permit effects that wastewater or stormwater environmental performance standard does not deal with

  1. Subsection (2) applies if a wastewater environmental performance standard or a stormwater environmental performance standard provides that—

  2. an activity is permitted; or
    1. an activity does not require a resource consent.

      1. A plan may permit, and impose conditions that deal with, any effects of the activity that differ from those regulated or managed in the environmental performance standard.

      2. However, subsection (2) does not apply if the environmental performance standard provides otherwise.

      Notes
      • Section 58JC: inserted, on , by section 76 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).