Water Services Act 2021

Standards, enforcement, and other matters - Provisions relating to wastewater networks

138B: Wastewater environmental performance standards: application of certain provisions of Resource Management Act 1991

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"Rules for keeping wastewater clean under the Resource Management Act"

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You need to know about wastewater environmental performance standards. If a standard applies to an activity allowed under the Resource Management Act 1991, certain rules apply. These rules are from the Resource Management Act 1991 and include sections like section 10, section 10A, section 10B, and section 20A(2).

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Part 3Standards, enforcement, and other matters
Provisions relating to wastewater networks

138BWastewater environmental performance standards: application of certain provisions of Resource Management Act 1991

  1. Subsection (2) applies if a wastewater environmental performance standard applies to an activity that is permitted, or otherwise allowed without a resource consent, under the Resource Management Act 1991.

  2. The following provisions of the Resource Management Act 1991 apply to the activity as if the wastewater environmental performance standard were a rule in a district plan or regional plan (as applicable) that has become operative:

  3. section 10:
    1. section 10A:
      1. section 10B:
        1. section 20A(2).
          Notes
          • Section 138B: inserted, on , by section 158 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).