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Fast-track Approvals Bill

Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects - Process for panel consideration of substantive application - Substantive applications

24C: Authorised person may lodge substantive application for approvals

You could also call this:

“Special person can ask for many approvals at once for big projects”

You can ask for approvals for certain projects through a special process. If you’re allowed to, you can submit one application for the whole project or one for each part of the project.

You need to be the right person to ask for these approvals. This means you must be able to apply for similar approvals under normal rules.

Your application can ask for different types of approvals. These include:

  • Permission to use resources
  • Proof that you’re following the rules
  • Changing how land is used
  • Permission to use conservation areas
  • Swapping some protected land
  • Changing agreements about protecting nature
  • Approvals for wildlife-related activities
  • Permission to dig in areas with historical importance
  • Consent to do things in the sea
  • Permission to access certain areas for mining

You can even ask to do things that are usually not allowed under normal rules.

If you want proof that you’re following the rules, you need to ask for other approvals too.

When asking for permission to dig in historically important areas, you must also ask for other approvals. You can also ask for approval for someone to do the digging.

You need to submit your application in the right way, following specific rules.

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Part 2 Fast-track approval approvals process for eligible projects
Process for panel consideration of substantive application: Substantive applications

24CAuthorised person may lodge substantive application for approvals

  1. An authorised person for a Part A listed project or a referred project may lodge with the EPA—

  2. 1 substantive application for the project; or
    1. if the referral application for the project was accepted under section 22A(1)(a) , 1 substantive application for each stage of the project.

      1. The authorised person must be a person who, for each of the approvals sought under subsection (3) , would be eligible to apply for any corresponding approval under a specified Act.

      2. A substantive application may seek 1 or more of the following matters (the approvals):

      3. a resource consent that would otherwise be applied for under the Resource Management Act 1991 (but see subsection (4) ):
        1. a certificate of compliance that would otherwise be applied for under the Resource Management Act 1991 (but see subsection (5) ):
          1. a designation or an alteration to an existing designation for which a notice of requirement would otherwise be lodged under the Resource Management Act 1991:
            1. a concession as defined in clause 1 of Schedule 5 :
              1. the exchange of one of the following for land specified by the applicant that would otherwise be done under the Conservation Act 1987 or the Reserves Act 1977:
                1. a conservation area or part of a conservation area:
                  1. a Crown-owned reserve or part of a Crown-owned reserve:
                  2. an amendment to or revocation of a conservation covenant as defined in clause 22 of Schedule 5 :
                    1. a Wildlife Act approval as defined in clause 1 of Schedule 6 :
                      1. an archaeological authority described in section 44(a) or (b) of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 that would otherwise be applied for under that Act (but see subsection (6) ):
                        1. a marine consent that would otherwise be applied for under the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Act 2012:
                          1. an initial access arrangement or a variation to an existing access arrangement that would otherwise be applied for under section 61 of the Crown Minerals Act 1991:
                            1. an access arrangement that would otherwise be applied for under section 61B of the Crown Minerals Act 1991 or a variation to an access arrangement granted under that section.

                              1. A substantive application may seek an approval described in subsection (3)(a) for an activity that is a prohibited activity under the Resource Management Act 1991.

                              2. A substantive application may seek an approval described in subsection (3)(aa) only if the substantive application also seeks an approval described in subsection (3)(a) or (b).

                              3. A substantive application that seeks an approval described in subsection (3)(g) —

                              4. may be made only if the application also seeks an approval described in subsection (3)(a) or (b) :
                                1. may include an application under clause 6 of Schedule 7 (application for approval of person to carry out activity).

                                  1. A substantive application must be lodged in accordance with section 24D .