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Natural Environment Bill

Natural resource permits - Applying for natural resource permit - General requirements

133: Applications to undertake aquaculture activities

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"Applying to Farm the Sea: Rules for Getting Permission"

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If you want to do aquaculture activities in the coastal marine area, you need to apply for a coastal permit. This section is about what happens with your application. You will be affected by this proposed change to the law. When you apply for a coastal permit, the permit authority must send a copy of your application to the chief executive as soon as possible. They must also send any information or reports they get about your application to the chief executive. If people can make submissions about your application, the permit authority must send the chief executive a copy of those submissions after the submission period ends. This proposed change does not apply to you if you already have a coastal permit for the same area and certain conditions are not met. It also does not apply if a determination has been made about the aquaculture area under section 186JB of the Fisheries Act 1996 by the chief executive of the Ministry responsible for the administration of that Act. The chief executive is the person in charge of the Ministry that looks after the Fisheries Act 1996.

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Part 4Natural resource permits
Applying for natural resource permit: General requirements

133Applications to undertake aquaculture activities

  1. This section applies to an application for a coastal permit authorising aquaculture activities to be undertaken in the coastal marine area.

  2. However, this section does not apply to—

  3. an application for a coastal permit by a person who already holds a coastal permit to occupy the same space in a common marine and coastal area for aquaculture activities, unless a previous aquaculture decision in relation to that area included a condition under section 186H(3) of the Fisheries Act 1996:
    1. an application for a coastal permit in a part of an aquaculture area in respect of which a determination has been made under section 186JB of the Fisheries Act 1996 by the chief executive of the Ministry responsible for the administration of that Act (the chief executive).

      1. The permit authority must,—

      2. unless the application is returned under section 135, forward a copy of the application to the chief executive as soon as is reasonably practicable; and
        1. forward any information or report obtained in relation to the application under section 140 or 141, or clause 50 of Schedule 3 of the Planning Act 2025, to the chief executive as soon as is reasonably practicable; and
          1. if the application is notified, provide the chief executive with a copy of the submissions as soon as is reasonably practicable after the closing date for submissions.