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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

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

89: Minor corrections

You could also call this:

“Fixing small mistakes in decisions”

If a panel makes a decision, they can fix small mistakes in their decision document. You have 20 working days after they give out the document to make these small fixes. These could be things they forgot to include, errors they made, or other small problems with the document.

For special decisions about designations, the panel can fix mistakes in a slightly different way. They can make corrections up until one of two things happens, whichever comes first:

  1. The day when the local council puts the designation into their district plan and any proposed district plan.

  2. 40 working days after all the chances to appeal the designation decision have been used up or have run out.

This means the panel has a bit more time to fix mistakes for designations than for other types of decisions.

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Part 2 Fast-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