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Natural Environment Bill

Natural resource permits - Market-based allocation processes and comparative permitting processes - Comparative consenting process

214: Requirement for determining affected applications

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When you are working out which applications are affected under this Part, you must consider a few things. You need to look at how good each application is compared to the others, and think about any other important criteria in the plan, regulations, or national instrument. You also need to determine affected applications together, rather than one by one as they are lodged. This is extra to any other things you need to think about when making a decision about an affected application.

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Part 4Natural resource permits
Market-based allocation processes and comparative permitting processes: Comparative consenting process

214Requirement for determining affected applications

  1. When determining affected applications under this Part, a permit authority must,—

  2. when having regard to the matters in subpart 4, consider the merits of each affected application against the merits of all the other affected applications; and
    1. have regard to any other applicable criteria set out in the relevant plan, any regulations, or a national instrument.

      1. A permit authority—

      2. must not determine an affected application in the order the application is lodged; but
        1. must instead determine affected applications together.

          1. Subsection (1) is in addition to any other requirements, criteria, or other matters that a decision maker must consider or take into account under this Part when determining an affected application.