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Part 5Standards, policy statements, and plans
Intensification planning instruments and intensification streamlined planning process: Intensification planning instruments

80HIPI must show how MDRS are incorporated

  1. When a specified territorial authority notifies its IPI in accordance with section 80F(1) or (2), it must show in the instrument, for the purposes of sections 77M, 86B, and 86BA—

  2. which provisions incorporate—
    1. the density standards in Part 2 of Schedule 3A; and
      1. the objectives and policies in clause 6 of Schedule 3A; and
      2. which provisions in the operative district plan and any proposed plan are replaced by—
        1. the density standards in Part 2 of Schedule 3A; and
          1. the objectives and policies in clause 6 of Schedule 3A.

          2. The identification of a provision in an IPI as required in subsection (1)—

          3. does not form part of the IPI; and
            1. may be removed, without any further authority than this subsection, by the specified territorial authority once the IPI becomes operative.

              Notes
              • Section 80H: inserted, on , by section 10 of the Resource Management (Enabling Housing Supply and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 59).