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Natural Environment Bill

Foundations - Environmental limits - Action plans and caps on resource use

60: Tools for managing resources to which limits apply

You could also call this:

"Managing natural resources with limits"

Illustration for Natural Environment Bill

If a new law is passed, regional councils will have to manage natural resources that have limits on how they can be used. You will see regional councils using tools like caps on resource use or action plans to manage these resources. They will have to follow certain rules when using these tools, and they will have to prefer using caps on resource use unless it is not effective or feasible, or unless national standards say otherwise.

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Part 2Foundations
Environmental limits: Action plans and caps on resource use

60Tools for managing resources to which limits apply

  1. A regional council must manage every natural resource that is subject to an environmental limit.

  2. The tools for managing a natural resource that is subject to an environmental limit are as follows, and must be used by a regional council in accordance with this section and any requirements in national standards:

  3. a cap on resource use:
    1. an action plan:
      1. both paragraphs (a) and (b).

        1. A regional council must give first preference to only using a cap on resource use unless—

        2. the council considers, in accordance with any criteria prescribed in regulations, that it is not effective or feasible to do so; or
          1. national standards direct otherwise.

            1. Without limiting subsection (3)(a), a regional council may consider that a cap on resource use is not feasible because the resource is affected by a range of different causes.