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88H: Excluded time periods relating to non-payment of administrative charges
or “Stopping the clock when you don't pay fees for your building permission request”
You could also call this:

“This law says there's a special time that doesn't count when people are waiting for permission to build or change things in cities.”

When you apply for a resource consent, there’s a special rule about time limits. If your application is affected by the Urban Development Act 2020, some time might not be counted in the usual deadlines. This applies to a specific period mentioned in section 103(4) of that Act. The local authority that gets your application won’t include this time when they’re working out how long they have to process it. This helps make sure that the Urban Development Act’s processes don’t interfere with the normal resource consent timelines.

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Next up: 89: Applications to territorial authorities for resource consents where land is in coastal marine area

or “ When asking for permission to do something on land that's partly underwater, you talk to the local council as if it was all on dry land. ”
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Part 6 Resource consents
Application for resource consent

88IExcluded time periods under Urban Development Act 2020

  1. The period described in section 103(4) of the Urban Development Act 2020 is excluded from any time limits under this Act relating to a consent application received by a local authority.

Notes
  • Section 88I: inserted, on , by section 300 of the Urban Development Act 2020 (2020 No 42).