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Natural Environment Bill

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

63: General content of action plans

You could also call this:

"What needs to be in a plan to protect the environment"

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The proposed law says you can have an action plan that talks about how to make decisions on permits for using natural resources. You can also use it to review the conditions of permits and prepare rules for a natural environment plan. It can even include limits on how much of a resource can be used. The action plan must include anything that national standards say it has to, and it must follow those standards. You can put other things in the plan if you think they will help achieve its purpose. This can include things that other groups or people will do under different laws. If a natural environment plan or part of it starts to apply and it is about the same things as the action plan, the regional council must think about updating the action plan to match.

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

63General content of action plans

  1. An action plan may set out matters relating to—

  2. decision-making on applications for natural resource permits; and
    1. the review of conditions of permits; and
      1. the preparation of rules in a natural environment plan; and
        1. caps on resource use.

          1. An action plan must—

          2. set out any other matters required by national standards; and
            1. be consistent with national standards.

              1. A regional council may include in its action plan any other intervention it considers would assist in achieving the purpose of the action plan, including interventions by other authorities, entities, or persons under other legislation.

              2. When a natural environmental plan or any of its provisions becomes operative and relates to the subject matter of an action plan, the regional council must consider whether to update the action plan in order to reflect the natural environmental plan or provisions that have become operative.