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Planning Bill

Foundations - National instruments - National standards

60: What national standards can do

You could also call this:

"How National Standards Control What You Can and Can't Do"

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You will be affected by national standards that can control what you can and can't do. National standards can say what activities are allowed or not allowed. They can also say how activities should be classified. You need to follow conditions set by national standards when you get planning consent for an activity. National standards can require you to comply with certain rules or plans. They can also restrict what rules can be made or what planning consent can be given. National standards can say whether people should be notified about an application for planning consent. They can also say what happens to rules that were made before the national standards started. National standards can control how land use plans are prepared and what they should include. If a plan and a national standard have different conditions, the national standard conditions are more important. National standards can also allow territorial authorities to charge for monitoring certain activities. This is how national standards can affect you and your community.

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Part 2Foundations
National instruments: National standards

60What national standards can do

  1. National standards may give directions that—

  2. allow, restrict, or prohibit an activity:
    1. classify an activity or state how it is be classified:
      1. specify conditions that must or may be imposed on a planning consent for an activity:
        1. require as a condition of a planning consent, compliance with requirements specified in the standards or in a plan or proposed plan:
          1. restrict the making of a rule or the granting of planning consent to matters specified in the standards:
            1. specify whether an application for a planning consent for an activity must be notified or precluded from being notified for public or targeted submissions:
              1. specify in relation to a rule made before the commencement of the standards,—
                1. the extent to which any matter to which the standard applies continues to have effect; or
                  1. the time period during which any matter to which the standard applies continues to have effect.

                  2. National standards may give directions for the preparation of land use plans, including directions relating to—

                  3. standard processes and methodologies:
                    1. objectives and policies that plans must implement:
                      1. objectives, policies, and rules (including for the purpose of zones and overlays) that plans must include:
                        1. other content that must be included in plans (for example, definitions).

                          1. National standards may include requirements relating to—

                          2. the structure and form of a plan:
                            1. electronic accessibility and functionality of a plan:
                              1. processes, methodologies, or implementation:
                                1. measuring, monitoring, and reporting:
                                  1. records that must be kept and how they must be kept:
                                    1. any other matter for the purpose of a national standards or implementation of national standards.

                                      1. If conditions in a plan deal with effects of an activity that are the same as those dealt with in the conditions specified in a national standard, the conditions in the standard prevail.

                                      2. National standards may empower territorial authorities to charge for monitoring any specified permitted activities in the standard.