123CDuration of certain current and continued consents

1. This section applies to—

2. a resource consent that is current on the commencement date but due to expire before the close of 31 December 2027:
3. a resource consent that expired before the commencement date, but only if,—
   1. immediately before the commencement date, the holder was eligible to operate under the consent in reliance on section 124; and
   2. the holder’s application for a new consent had not been determined by the consent authority before the commencement date.

4. A resource consent—

5. referred to in subsection (1)(a) is extended to the close of 31 December 2027:
6. referred to in subsection (1)(b) is deemed to be reinstated and extended to the close of 31 December 2027.

7. However, if the resource consent relates to water, the consent expires on the earlier of—

8. the close of 31 December 2027:
9. the date that is 35 years after the date the consent commenced.

10. Despite subsection (3), a resource consent that relates to water expires on the close of 1 October 2026 if, on the commencement of this Act, the consent was deemed to be (or otherwise to be treated as) granted under this Act.

11. Any conditions applying to a resource consent or that applied to a resource consent before it expired (as the case may be) continue to apply unless a change to a condition is required as a consequence of extending the consent under this section.

12. However, any extension, or reinstatement and extension, of a consent under this section does not affect the application of sections 125, 127, 128, and 129.

13. A consent authority must,—

14. no later than 6 months after the commencement date, update a resource consent to which this section applies to record its new expiry date; and
15. if applicable, continue to process and determine the application for the new consent unless it is withdrawn.

16. This section does not apply to any extant wastewater consent that has already been extended under section 139C or 139D.

17. In this section, commencement date means the date on which this section comes into force.

18. In subsections (3) and (4), a resource consent relates to water if it is—

19. a water permit within the meaning of section 87(d):
20. a discharge permit (within the meaning of section 87(e)) authorising—
    1. a discharge of contaminant or water into water:
    2. a discharge of contaminant onto or into land, in the circumstances described in section 15(1)(b):
21. a land use consent under section 9 that includes associated discharges.