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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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"Plans can allow activities not covered by wastewater or stormwater rules"

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You can do an activity if a wastewater or stormwater environmental performance standard says it is allowed. A plan can let you do things that the standard does not mention, and it can also add conditions to manage these things. The plan can do this if the standard does not say otherwise, as per the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025.

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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).