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Resource Management Act 1991

Resource consents - Application for resource consent

88G: Exclusion of period when processing of non-notified application suspended

You could also call this:

“When an application is put on hold, the waiting time doesn't count towards the deadline.”

If you submit a resource consent application that doesn’t need to be notified to the public, there might be times when the processing of your application is paused. This is called suspension. When this happens, the time it takes to process your application doesn’t include the days when it was suspended.

The suspension period starts from the day your application was paused and ends on the day the pause was lifted. This suspended time is not counted in the normal time limits for processing your application.

If you want to know more about when an application can be suspended, you can check section 91D. For information on the usual time limits for processing applications, you can look at section 88B.

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View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=LMS415091.

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Part 6 Resource consents
Application for resource consent

88GExclusion of period when processing of non-notified application suspended

  1. Subsection (2) applies when a non-notified application is suspended under section 91D.

  2. The period that must be excluded from every applicable time limit under section 88B is the period—

  3. starting from the date on which the suspension started; and
    1. ending on the date on which the suspension ceased.

      Notes
      • Section 88G: inserted, on , by section 28 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 30).