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Water Services Act 2021

Standards, enforcement, and other matters - Infrastructure design solutions

139D: Infrastructure design solutions: application of certain provisions of Resource Management Act 1991

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"Following rules for infrastructure design to protect New Zealand's environment"

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If you have an infrastructure design solution, it must follow certain rules. You need to check if your solution is allowed under the Resource Management Act 1991. This Act is a law that helps manage New Zealand's environment. When your solution is allowed, some parts of the Resource Management Act 1991 apply. These parts are like rules in a plan that your local council uses. They include sections like section 10, section 10A, section 10B, and section 20A(2) of the Resource Management Act 1991.

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139DInfrastructure design solutions: application of certain provisions of Resource Management Act 1991

  1. Subsection (2) applies if an infrastructure design solution relates 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 infrastructure design solution 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 139D: inserted, on , by section 161 of the Local Government (Water Services) (Repeals and Amendments) Act 2025 (2025 No 43).