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Natural Environment Bill

Foundations - Key instruments - Provisions of key instruments

30: Application of objectives, policies, rules, and methods

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You will see changes to how objectives, policies, rules, and methods are applied. These changes can apply to all or part of a region or New Zealand. They can apply all the time or for certain periods.

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29: Objectives, policies, rules, and methods, or

"What the Law Wants to Achieve and How it Will Happen"

31: Meaning of rule, or

"What a 'rule' means in the Natural Environment Bill"

Part 2Foundations
Key instruments: Provisions of key instruments

30Application of objectives, policies, rules, and methods

An objective, policy, rule, or method of a key instrument may—
may apply throughout all or part of—
1. a region, in the case of a natural environment plan; or
2. New Zealand, in the case of a national instrument:
apply all of the time or for specified periods.