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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Panel consideration of substantive application - Decision documents

89: Minor corrections

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"Fixing small mistakes in documents within a set timeframe"

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If you are on a panel, you can fix small mistakes in a decision document within 20 working days of issuing it under section 88(1). You can make these changes to correct minor errors or defects in the document.

You can also correct a requirement for a designation before it is included in a district plan under clause 30 of Schedule 5, or before 40 working days have passed since any appeals related to the designation have been finalised or have expired under section 99.

When you make these corrections, you are fixing errors or defects in the decision document or the designation requirement, and you must do this within the allowed timeframes.

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Part 2Fast-track approvals process
Panel consideration of substantive application: Decision documents

89Minor corrections

  1. A panel may, within 20 working days after issuing a decision document under section 88(1), issue an amendment to the document to correct minor omissions, errors, or other defects in it.

  2. A panel may correct a requirement for a designation before the earlier of the following:

  3. the day on which the territorial authority includes the designation in its district plan and any proposed district plan under clause 30 of Schedule 5; and
    1. the day that is 40 working days after the day on which any rights of appeal under section 99 that relate to the designation have been exhausted or have expired.

      Compare
      • 2020 No 35 Schedule 6 cl 40
      • 2023 No 46 Schedule 10 cl 39