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Fast-track Approvals Act 2024

Fast-track approvals process - Panel consideration of substantive application - Panel decisions

80: Aquaculture decision required for certain coastal permits

You could also call this:

“You need a special decision for some fish farming permits”

If the EPA asks the relevant chief executive to recommend an aquaculture decision, a panel must make that decision when they decide on approvals for resource consents or changes to resource consent conditions. The panel will follow specific rules when making this decision.

After the decision is made, the EPA needs to send electronic copies to certain people and groups. These include the relevant consent authority, and the people and organisations who gave information or were consulted by the chief executive.

However, the EPA can keep some information secret if they think there’s a good reason to, based on the Official Information Act. This might happen if someone asked for that information under that Act.

You should know that these rules are part of a law about making decisions on coastal permits for aquaculture. The law aims to make the process faster for some approvals.

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Panel consideration of substantive application: Panel decisions

80Aquaculture decision required for certain coastal permits

  1. This section applies if the EPA requests the relevant chief executive to make a recommendation on an aquaculture decision under section 48.

  2. A panel must make an aquaculture decision in accordance with clause 20 of Schedule 5 when it makes its decision under section 81 on an approval described in section 42(4)(a) or (b) (resource consent or change or cancellation of resource consent condition).

  3. The EPA—

  4. must provide electronic copies of an aquaculture decision to—
    1. the relevant consent authority; and
      1. the persons and organisations who supplied information to the relevant chief executive; and
        1. the persons and organisations consulted by the relevant chief executive; and
        2. in complying with paragraph (a), may withhold information if the EPA is satisfied that there would be good reason to withhold the information under the Official Information Act 1982 if the information were requested under that Act.