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330A: Resource consents for emergency works
or “This law explains how to get permission for work done in emergencies after it has already happened.”
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“Changes to rules for emergency activities in storm-affected areas give people more time to report what they did and ask for permission”

When you or someone working for you need to do emergency work in an area affected by severe weather, you have more time to tell people about it and get permission. Instead of the usual time, you now have 100 working days to let others know about the work you did. If you need to ask for permission after doing the work, you have 160 working days to do that. These new time limits replace the old ones in section 330A.

The emergency work can be done by you, your local council, someone who gives out permits, a company that runs things like power lines or water pipes, or a company that provides important services during emergencies. The rules about telling people and asking for permission afterwards still apply, but with these longer time limits.

If you’re wondering what a “lifeline utility” is, it means the same thing as it does in section 330(5) of the law.

Remember, these new time limits won’t last forever. They will stop being used after 1 October 2024.

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Part 12 Declarations, enforcement, and ancillary powers
Emergency works

330AAModification of requirements in section 330A for activities undertaken in affected areas

  1. This section applies if, because of or in connection with the impacts of a severe weather event, a person, local authority, consent authority, network utility operator, or lifeline utility (or a person acting on their behalf) undertakes an activity in an affected area under section 330.

  2. The time within which advice of the activity must be given under section 330A(1) is extended to 100 working days.

  3. The time within which any application for a resource consent must be lodged under section 330A(2) is extended to 160 working days.

  4. Section 330A(3) applies subject to the time periods as modified by subsections (2) and (3).

  5. In this section, lifeline utility has the same meaning as in section 330(5).

  6. This section is repealed on the close of 1 October 2024.

Notes
  • Section 330AA: inserted, on , by section 19 of the Severe Weather Emergency Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 4).