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Health and Safety at Work Act 2015

Miscellaneous provisions - Regulations, exemptions, approved codes of practice, and safe work instruments - General provisions

230: Relationship between regulations relating to hazardous substances under this Act and Resource Management Act 1991

You could also call this:

“How rules for dangerous substances work with land and water rules”

This law talks about how rules for dangerous substances work with other rules about using land and water. Here’s what you need to know:

If you have permission to use, handle, make, or store dangerous substances on land, or to do something in coastal areas, or to release substances, the rules made under this law don’t apply to you. This is true if you got your permission before new rules about dangerous substances were made.

Your permission will stay the same until someone checks it using another law called the Resource Management Act.

When this law talks about ‘permission’, it means the same thing as ‘resource consent’ in the Resource Management Act.

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Part 5 Miscellaneous provisions
Regulations, exemptions, approved codes of practice, and safe work instruments: General provisions

230Relationship between regulations relating to hazardous substances under this Act and Resource Management Act 1991

  1. Repealed

  2. Repealed

  3. Nothing prescribed in regulations made under this Act for the safe use, handling, manufacture, or storage of hazardous substances applies in relation to any resource consent to which this subsection applies that is—

  4. a land use consent relating to the use, handling, manufacture, or storage of any hazardous substance; or
    1. a coastal permit to do something that would otherwise contravene section 15 of the Resource Management Act 1991; or
      1. a discharge permit.

        1. Subsection (3) applies where the resource consent concerned was granted before the coming into force of any regulations made under the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996 and until such time as the conditions on the resource consent are reviewed in accordance with section 128 of the Resource Management Act 1991.

        2. In this section, resource consent has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Resource Management Act 1991.

        Notes
        • Section 230 heading: amended, on , 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).
        • Section 230(1): repealed, on , by section 123 of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).
        • Section 230(2): repealed, on , by section 123 of the Resource Legislation Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 15).
        • Section 230(3)(b): amended, on , 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).
        • Section 230(4): amended, on , 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).
        • Section 230(5): amended, on , 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).