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165ZFHC: Extension of coastal permits for marine farms
or “Coastal permits for marine farms can be extended for up to 20 years or until the end of 2050, whichever comes first.”
You could also call this:

“This law explains how to update your sea farming permit if it was extended when the new rules came in.”

When this new part of the law starts, if you have a coastal permit that’s been extended and you’ve also applied for a new one under section 165ZH, you need to make a choice within two months. You can either keep using your extended permit or continue with your new application. You must tell the consent authority what you decide.

The consent authority has to update all the extended coastal permits within six months to show their new end dates. For the first two months after this law starts, they can pause processing new applications while permit holders make their decisions.

If you choose to keep using your extended permit, you need to withdraw your new application within two months of the law starting.

If you decide to continue with your new application under section 165ZH, you won’t get the 20-year extension that comes with the extended permits under this new law.

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Part 7A Occupation of common marine and coastal area
Duration of coastal permits for marine farms extended

165ZFHDUpdating of extended coastal permits

  1. If, on the day on which this subpart comes into force, the holder of an extant coastal permit has lodged an application under section 165ZH and at the same time the duration of the extant coastal permit is extended under this subpart, the holder must, not later than 2 months after this subpart comes into force,—

  2. decide whether—
    1. to continue operating under the extant coastal permit; or
      1. to continue with the application; and
      2. notify the relevant consent authority of that decision.

        1. A consent authority—

        2. must, within 6 months of this subpart coming into force, update each extant coastal permit to record the expiry date of each, as extended under this subpart; but
          1. may, for a period of 2 months after this subpart comes into force, suspend processing applications made under section 165ZH while holders of extant coastal permits make, and give notice of, the decision required under subsection (1).

            1. A permit holder who decides to continue operating under an extant coastal permit as extended under this subpart must withdraw the application lodged under section 165ZH within 2 months of this subpart coming into force.

            2. However, if a permit holder decides to continue with the application lodged under section 165ZH, a coastal permit granted under that application does not qualify for the 20-year extension to the expiry date provided for under this subpart.

            Notes
            • Section 165ZFHD: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Resource Management (Extended Duration of Coastal Permits for Marine Farms) Amendment Act 2024 (2024 No 32).