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330B: Emergency works under Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002
or “Special rules for emergency actions during a crisis or recovery period”
You could also call this:

“Special rules give people more time to report and get permission for emergency work in storm-affected areas”

This law applies when you or someone acting for you needs to do emergency work in an area affected by severe weather where a state of emergency or transition period is in place. If you do this kind of work, you have more time to tell the authorities about it and to apply for permission.

Usually, you need to tell the authorities about emergency work quickly, but in these situations, you have 100 working days to do so. This is much longer than normal.

If you need to apply for permission (called a resource consent) after doing the emergency work, you usually have to do this quickly too. But in these situations, you have 160 working days to apply. This is also much longer than normal.

These extended time periods change how section 330B of the law works for emergency activities in affected areas.

Remember, this special rule will stop being used after 1 October 2024.

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Part 12 Declarations, enforcement, and ancillary powers
Emergency works

330CModification of requirements in section 330B 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 (or a person acting on their behalf) undertakes an activity to which section 330B applies in a part of an affected area to which a state of emergency or transition period under the Civil Defence Emergency Management Act 2002 is in force.

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

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

  4. Section 330B(4) and (5) applies subject to the time periods as modified by subsections (2) and (3).

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 This section is repealed on the close of 1 October 2024.

Notes
  • Section 330C: inserted, on , by section 20 of the Severe Weather Emergency Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 4).