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229: Minister may delegate approval of codes of practice and safe work instruments to regulator
or “Minister can allow regulator to approve workplace safety guidelines”
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“How hazardous substance rules interact with existing resource consents”

You need to know about how rules for hazardous substances work with resource consents. Resource consents are special permissions given by the government for using land or resources.

If you have a resource consent for using, handling, making, or storing hazardous substances, some rules don’t apply to you. This is true for land use consents, coastal permits, and discharge permits. But this only works if you got your resource consent before new rules about hazardous substances came into effect.

Your resource consent will stay the same until it’s reviewed. The review will happen as part of the Resource Management Act 1991.

Remember, these special rules only apply to resource consents given before the new hazardous substance rules came in. Once your resource consent is reviewed, you might need to follow the new rules.

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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 Repealed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 Repealed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).