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Natural resource permits - Applying for natural resource permit - Permit authority may require further information

143: Consequences of applicant’s failure to respond to requests, etc

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"What happens if you don't respond to requests about your natural resource permit application?"

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If you apply for a natural resource permit, the permit authority might say your application is incomplete. This can happen if you do not respond to a request within a certain time frame. You might be asked to provide more information, agree to a report, pay an extra charge, or give approval for an activity. If you do not respond within three months after the time frame ends, and the permit authority has told you they might return your application, they can return it to you. They will give you written reasons for why they made this decision. If you send the application again, it will be treated as a new application. An agreed date is a date that you and the permit authority have agreed on.

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142: Response to request for further information or report, or

"Answering requests for more information or a report"

144: Time limit for public notification or targeted notification, or

"How long the permit authority has to decide who to tell about your application"

Part 4Natural resource permits
Applying for natural resource permit: Permit authority may require further information

143Consequences of applicant’s failure to respond to requests, etc

A permit authority may determine an application for a natural resource permit is incomplete if—
the applicant was required to provide one of the following responses:
1. to provide further information in response to a request under section 140 within the time specified in the regulations; or
2. to tell the permit authority in a written notice whether the applicant agrees to the commissioning of a report under section 141 within the time specified in the regulations; or
3. to pay an additional charge to the permit authority required under section 229 and specified in a written notice by an agreed date; or
4. to give the permit authority written approval for a proposed activity under section 128(1)(b)(i) of the Planning Act 2025 by an agreed date; and
3 months after the expiry of the applicable time frame specified in paragraph (a), the applicant has not provided the required response; and
the permit authority has notified the applicant, by a method specified in section 324, of its intention to return the application.

After determining that an application is incomplete under this section, the permit authority may return the application to the applicant with written reasons for the determination.
If, after an application has been returned as incomplete under this section, that application is lodged again with the permit authority, that application is to be treated as a new application.
In this section, agreed date means a date agreed between the applicant and the permit authority.