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217K: Regional council must appoint certifiers and auditors
or “Regional councils must choose people to check and review farm plans, following special rules.”
You could also call this:

“A regional council can allow a farming group to check and approve farm water plans if they meet certain rules.”

You can ask your regional council to let an industry organisation check and approve freshwater farm plans. The council can say yes if the organisation meets certain standards. These standards are set by the Minister and published in the Gazette. They explain what kind of organisations can be approved and what they need to do.

The standards might also say what type of organisation can be approved and how they should run their business. For example, they might need to train people or make sure there are no conflicts of interest.

If an organisation is approved, the regional council can ask them for information if they need it to do their job properly. This is explained more in section 217I.

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Next up: 217L: Relationship between certified freshwater farm plan and specified instruments

or “This explains how rules in farm plans work alongside other rules, and which ones you need to follow when they're different.”
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Part 9A Freshwater farm plans

217KARegional council may approve industry organisation to provide certification or audit services

  1. A regional council may give approval to an industry organisation that applies to the council to provide certification and audit services under this Part if the council is satisfied that the organisation meets the standards issued under subsection (2).

  2. The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, issue standards by which industry organisations must be assessed for the purpose of determining their suitability to be an approved industry organisation.

  3. Standards may also—

  4. set out the kind of organisation eligible to be approved for the purposes of this Part; and
    1. include content and processes to provide for compliance with the standards, for example, by requiring the industry to run training programmes and ensuring that conflicts are appropriately managed.

      1. A regional council may request information from an approved industry organisation that the council considers reasonably necessary for carrying out their functions under section 217I.

      Notes
      • Section 217KA: inserted, on , by section 805(4) of the Natural and Built Environment Act 2023 (2023 No 46).