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143: Regional authority must decide whether to approve or refuse dam safety assurance programme
or “The regional authority must tell the dam owner if they accept or reject the dam safety plan after checking if a proper engineer approved it.”
You could also call this:

“ Trusted dam owners can skip checks and get quick approval for their safety plans ”

If you own a dam and are accredited, you have some special rules to follow. You don’t need to get your dam safety assurance programme checked by someone else or give the regional authority a special certificate. Instead, when you give your dam safety assurance programme to the regional authority, they will automatically approve it. This is different from what other dam owners have to do. The regional authority will treat your programme as if they had already looked at it and said it was okay.

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Next up: 145: Regional authority must require re-audit of dam safety assurance programme that it refuses to approve

or “If a local council says no to a dam safety plan, they must tell the dam owner to get an expert to check it again”
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Safety of dams: Dam safety assurance programmes

144Dam safety assurance programme provided to regional authority by accredited dam owner deemed to have been approved

  1. Despite sections 140 to 143,—

  2. an accredited dam owner is not required to—
    1. submit the owner's dam safety assurance programme for audit; and
      1. provide the regional authority with the certificate referred to in section 142(1)(b); and
      2. the dam safety assurance programme provided to the regional authority by the accredited dam owner is deemed, on its receipt by the regional authority, to have been approved by that regional authority under section 143.