Plain language law

New Zealand law explained for everyone

Resource Management Act 1991

Standards, policy statements, and plans - Intensification planning instruments and intensification streamlined planning process - Ministerial direction

80L: Minister may make direction

You could also call this:

“The government leader can tell councils what to do when making new housing rules.”

The Minister can give instructions to one or more specific local councils about certain things. These instructions can be about:

  1. How many people the council needs to appoint to a special group called an independent hearings panel.

  2. What kind of experience and qualifications a person needs to have before the council can choose them for the panel.

  3. How long the council has to finish different parts of something called the ISPP.

  4. What things the council needs to tell the Minister about.

The Minister can also include what they expect the council to do in these instructions.

When the Minister is deciding what to put in the instructions, they have to think about section 80D of the law.

These instructions from the Minister are called “secondary legislation”. This means they have to follow certain rules about how they’re made public for everyone to see.

This text is automatically generated. It might be out of date or be missing some parts. Find out more about how we do this.

View the original legislation for this page at https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=LMS634132.

Topics:
Housing and property > Land use
Government and voting > Local councils
Environment and resources > Town planning
Previous

80K: Regulations requiring tier 3 territorial authority to change district plan, or

“Rules can be made to tell certain councils they must change their plans for building houses.”

Next

80M: Amendment of direction, or

“The Minister can change the rules they made, and local councils can ask for changes too.”

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

80LMinister may make direction

  1. The Minister may direct 1 or more specified territorial authorities in relation to the following requirements:

  2. the number of panel members that the specified territorial authority must appoint to an independent hearings panel established under clause 96(1)(a) of Schedule 1:
    1. the level of experience and qualifications that a person must meet before the specified territorial authority may appoint that person to an independent hearings panel:
      1. 1 or more periods of time within which the specified territorial authority must complete 1 or more stages of the ISPP:
        1. matters on which the specified territorial authority must report to the Minister.

          1. The direction may also include the Minister’s statement of expectations for the specified territorial authority.

          2. In deciding the content of the direction, the Minister must have regard to section 80D.

          3. A direction made under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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