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Resource Management Act 1991

Standards, policy statements, and plans - National direction - Infrastructure design solutions

58JE: Plan may permit effects that infrastructure design solution does not deal with

You could also call this:

"A plan can allow things to happen that an infrastructure design doesn't cover."

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You can do an activity that an infrastructure design solution says is okay. The plan can say yes to effects of the activity that the infrastructure design solution does not deal with. It can also add conditions to manage these effects, unless the infrastructure design solution says otherwise.

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Part 5Standards, policy statements, and plans
National direction: Infrastructure design solutions

58JEPlan may permit effects that infrastructure design solution does not deal with

  1. Subsection (2) applies if an infrastructure design solution 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 infrastructure design solution.

      2. However, subsection (2) does not apply if the infrastructure design solution provides otherwise.

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