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Resource Management Act 1991

Declarations, enforcement, and ancillary powers - Emergency activities undertaken by certain rural landowners and occupiers

331C: Requirement for owner or occupier to give notice to relevant consent authority

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“The person who owns or lives on the land must tell the local council about emergency activities they do.”

If you are a rural landowner or occupier, you no longer need to give notice to the relevant consent authority for emergency activities. This requirement was removed from the law on 1 April 2024. The law used to have a section about this, but it has been taken out of the Resource Management Act 1991.

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Environment and resources > Land use
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331B: Owner or occupier of rural land may take emergency preventive or remedial measures, or

“People living in the countryside can act quickly to stop or fix emergencies on their land.”

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331D: Duty to gather information, monitor, and keep records, or

“You need to collect information, watch what's happening, and write things down.”

Part 12 Declarations, enforcement, and ancillary powers
Emergency activities undertaken by certain rural landowners and occupiers

331CRequirement for owner or occupier to give notice to relevant consent authority (Repealed)

    Notes
    • Section 331C: repealed, on the , by section 331F(1).