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Resource Management Act 1991

Resource consents - Application for resource consent

91F: Non-notified application may be returned after certain period

You could also call this:

“If an application is put on hold for 20 working days, the authority can choose to give it back or keep working on it.”

You can ask for more time to give information for your resource consent application. If the consent authority has stopped processing your application for 20 working days because you needed more time, they must decide to either give your application back to you or keep working on it.

If they decide to give it back, they must explain in writing why they’re doing this. You can disagree with their decision to give it back by using section 357(3A).

If you get your application back and then give it to the consent authority again, they will treat it like a new application.

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Part 6 Resource consents
Application for resource consent

91FNon-notified application may be returned after certain period

  1. Subsection (2) applies if the processing of the non-notified application has been suspended for a total of 20 working days in response to 1 or more requests under section 91D.

  2. The consent authority must decide to—

  3. return the application to the applicant; or
    1. continue to process the application.

      1. If the consent authority decides to return the application,—

      2. it must be returned together with a written explanation as to why it is being returned; but
        1. the applicant may object to the consent authority under section 357(3A).

          1. If, after an application has been returned, the application is lodged again with the consent authority, the application is to be treated as a new application.

          Notes
          • Section 91F: inserted, on , by section 32 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2020 (2020 No 30).