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Fast-track Approvals Bill

Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects - Decisions about referral of projects and process of referral - Process after Minister receives referral application

19B: Report on arrangements for public conservation land

You could also call this:

“A report about how people use and look after nature areas”

You need to get a report from the Department of Conservation when you receive a referral application. This report must talk about how the land in the project area is currently managed, accessed, or used. This applies to land that is covered by the Conservation Act 1987, the Reserves Act 1977, or the National Parks Act 1980.

The Department of Conservation has to work with anyone who owns or manages the land (except for the Crown) when they make this report. They need to include all the ways the land is managed, accessed, or used, even if these aren’t official arrangements.

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Environment and resources > Conservation
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Part 2 Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects
Decisions about referral of projects and process of referral: Process after Minister receives referral application

19BReport on arrangements for public conservation land

  1. The Minister must, for a referral application, obtain and consider a report that is prepared by the Department of Conservation in accordance with this section.

  2. The report must—

  3. include the existing arrangements for the administration, access to, or use of land in the project area that is held under the Conservation Act 1987, the Reserves Act 1977, or the National Parks Act 1980; and
    1. be prepared by the Department of Conservation in consultation with every owner or administrator of the land who is not the Crown.

      1. The report must cover arrangements of the kind described in subsection (2)(a) regardless of whether the arrangements are formal or informal.