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37: Territorial authority must issue certificate if resource consent required
or “The council must give you a special note if you need permission before you can start building.”

You could also call this:

“The city council must share information they receive with the people who originally gave it to them.”

When a territorial authority gets information from a network utility operator or a statutory authority, they might use this information in a project information memorandum. If they do this, the territorial authority has to give a copy of the project information memorandum back to the operator or authority that gave them the original information. This helps keep everyone informed about how their information is being used.

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Next up: 39: Territorial authority must advise Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga in certain circumstances

or “The local council must tell the heritage group if someone wants to build near an important historical place.”

Part 2 Building
Building work—Project information memoranda and building consents: Project information memoranda

38Territorial authority must give copy of project information memorandum in certain circumstances

  1. If a project information memorandum contains information previously supplied to a territorial authority by a network utility operator or a statutory authority, the territorial authority must give a copy of the project information memorandum to that operator or that authority.

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