Corrections Act 2004

Corrections system - Miscellaneous - Application of other Acts

178: Application of Resource Management Act 1991

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"How prisons and community work centres follow the Resource Management Act"

When you think about prisons or community work centres, you need to consider the Resource Management Act 1991. For Part 8 of this Act, building, managing, and maintaining a prison or community work centre is like doing a public work that the Minister is responsible for paying for. This is true even if the prison or community work centre is not built, managed, or maintained by the government.

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177: Application of Public Works Act 1981, or

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179: Application of certain Acts to various office holders, or

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Part 2Corrections system
Miscellaneous: Application of other Acts

178Application of Resource Management Act 1991

For the purposes of Part 8 of the Resource Management Act 1991, the construction, management, operation, and maintenance of a prison (other than a Police jail) or community work centre is to be treated as a public work for which the Minister has financial responsibility, whether or not the prison or community work centre, or proposed prison or community work centre, is, or is to be, constructed, managed, operated, or maintained by the Crown.

Notes

Section 178: replaced, on 23 December 2023, by section 6 of the Resource Management (Natural and Built Environment and Spatial Planning Repeal and Interim Fast-track Consenting) Act 2023 (2023 No 68).