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Planning Bill

Combined plan - Land use plans - Evaluation reports and justification reports

91: Failure to properly prepare evaluation report or justification report

You could also call this:

"Challenging a plan that doesn't follow the rules"

If you think a proposed plan or part of it is not good enough, you can challenge it. You can do this if you think the people making the plan did not follow the rules in section 87 or 89, or clause 10 or 11 of Schedule 3. You must make your challenge in a submission on the proposed plan, following the rules in Schedule 3. When someone is hearing your submission or appeal about the proposed plan, they can look at whether the rules in section 87 or 89 were followed. This is even if you did not make your challenge in the right way. They can consider these things when making their decision.

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90: Requirements for further justification reports, or

"When to write a extra explanation report for big changes to a plan"

92: Obligations relating to regulatory relief in Schedule 3, or

"Following rules that affect how you use your land"

Part 3Combined plan
Land use plans: Evaluation reports and justification reports

91Failure to properly prepare evaluation report or justification report

A proposed plan or any provision in it—
may be challenged on the grounds that section 87 or 89 or clause 10 or 11 of Schedule 3 have not been complied with; but
may only be challenged in a submission on the proposed plan made in accordance with Schedule 3.

Subsection (1) does not prevent a person who is hearing a submission or an appeal on a proposed plan from having regard to the matters in section 87 or 89.