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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Referral of project to fast-track approvals process - Steps before lodging referral application

11: Consultation requirements for referral application

You could also call this:

“Talking to important groups before asking for special project approval”

Before you can submit a referral application, you need to talk to several important groups. You must speak with the local authorities in your area. You also need to talk to any iwi authorities, hapū, and Treaty settlement entities that are relevant to your project. This includes iwi and hapū groups that have special agreements with the government.

If your project affects areas with special fishing rights, you need to talk to the local Māori people of those areas. You also need to consult with any groups that have applied for customary marine title under a specific law. If your project is near or affects the sea areas of Ngāti Porou, you must talk to them too.

You also need to speak with the agencies that will manage your project. If your project involves exchanging land with the government, you need to talk to anyone who has an interest in that land.

If more than one person is submitting the referral application together, only one of you needs to do all this talking and consulting. That person can do it on behalf of everyone else involved in the application.

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Referral of project to fast-track approvals process: Steps before lodging referral application

11Consultation requirements for referral application

  1. Before lodging a referral application, the applicant must consult—

  2. the relevant local authorities; and
    1. any relevant iwi authorities, hapū, and Treaty settlement entities, including—
      1. iwi authorities and groups that represent hapū that are parties to relevant Mana Whakahono ā Rohe or joint management agreements; and
        1. the tangata whenua of any area within the project area that is a taiāpure-local fishery, a mātaitai reserve, or an area that is subject to bylaws or regulations made under Part 9 of the Fisheries Act 1996; and
        2. any relevant applicant groups with applications for customary marine title under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011; and
          1. ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou, if the project area is within or adjacent to, or the project would directly affect, ngā rohe moana o ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou; and
            1. the relevant administering agencies; and
              1. if the proposed approvals for the project are to include an approval described in section 42(4)(f) (land exchange), the holder of an interest in the land that is to be exchanged by the Crown.

                1. If a referral application is to be lodged by more than 1 person, any 1 of those persons may comply with this section on behalf of all of them.