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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

24CB: Pre-request aquaculture agreement

You could also call this:

“Agreement needed before asking to start fish farming in the sea”

If you want to do aquaculture activities in the coastal marine area, this law applies to you. It’s about getting approval for your project.

You need to follow this law if you’re asking for approval to do aquaculture in the sea, and you don’t have a special permit called a coastal permit. It also applies if you have a coastal permit, but there are already rules about fishing in that area.

If you want to make an agreement about your aquaculture project before you ask for approval, you need to do this first. You must give this agreement to the person in charge before you ask for approval for your project.

When you make this agreement, you need to follow the rules in section 186ZM of the Fisheries Act 1996. These rules will be changed a bit to fit your situation. One important change is that instead of giving your agreement to the chief executive, you’ll give it to the group of people who will look at your project application.

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Process for panel consideration of substantive application: Substantive applications

24CBPre-request aquaculture agreement

  1. This section applies if—

  2. a substantive application seeks an approval described in section 24C(3)(a) (resource consent) for aquaculture activities to be undertaken in the coastal marine area; and
    1. either—
      1. the authorised person for the project does not hold a coastal permit under the Resource Management Act 1991 to occupy the relevant area of the coastal marine area for aquaculture activities; or
        1. the authorised person does hold a coastal permit of that kind but a condition under section 186H(3)(b) of the Fisheries Act 1996 has previously been set in relation to the area.

        2. If the authorised person for the project wishes to lodge a pre-request aquaculture agreement in relation to the area, they must lodge it with the chief executive before lodging the substantive application.

        3. Section 186ZM of the Fisheries Act 1996 applies in relation to the pre-request aquaculture agreement with all necessary modifications, including that the reference to the chief executive in section 186ZM(9) of that Act must be read as a reference to the panel that considers the substantive application.