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165ZDA: Minister of Aquaculture may suspend applications to occupy common marine and coastal area for purposes of aquaculture activities on own initiative
or “The person in charge of fish farms can stop people from asking to use the sea for a while if there are problems or too many people want to use it.”
You could also call this:

“When the Minister stops new fish farming applications, you can't apply for a permit in that area until the stop ends.”

When the Minister of Aquaculture issues a notice in the Gazette about a space in the sea, you can’t ask for permission to use that space for fish farming or other sea farming activities. This rule starts when the notice is published and ends when the notice expires.

This rule and section 165ZDA don’t change anything about:

  1. Requests that the regional council received before the Minister’s notice was published.
  2. Requests covered by section 165ZH.
  3. Requests made with special permission.

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Next up: 165ZE: Subsequent requests for direction in relation to suspension of receipt of applications

or “The Minister can extend the pause on new fish farming requests if there are still big challenges or worries about sea life health.”
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Part 7A Occupation of common marine and coastal area
Managing occupation in common marine and coastal area: Ministerial powers in relation to applications for coastal permits to undertake aquaculture activities in common marine and coastal area

165ZDBEffect on applications of suspension under section 165ZDA

  1. A person must not apply for a coastal permit to occupy any space that is the subject of a Gazette notice issued by the Minister of Aquaculture under section 165ZDA for the purpose of an aquaculture activity during the period commencing on the day on which the Gazette notice is issued and ending on the date on which the Gazette notice expires.

  2. Neither this section nor section 165ZDA affects—

  3. any application received by the regional council before the Gazette notice was issued by the Minister of Aquaculture under section 165ZDA:
    1. any application to which section 165ZH applies:
      1. any application made in accordance with an authorisation.

        Notes
        • Section 165ZDB: inserted, on , by section 805(4) of the Natural and Built Environment Act 2023 (2023 No 46).