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Offshore Renewable Energy Bill

Regime for offshore renewable energy permits and infrastructure protection - Feasibility permits

14: Pre-application consultation requirements for feasibility permit applications

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"Talking to local Māori groups before applying for a permit to explore offshore energy ideas"

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If you want to apply for a feasibility permit, you must talk to certain groups first. You need to consult iwi authorities, hapū, and Treaty settlement entities that are relevant to your application. This includes groups that have agreements about managing areas together.

You also need to talk to the tangata whenua of any special fishing areas within the permit area. This includes areas with their own fishing rules or areas that are protected for cultural reasons. You must also consult groups that have protected customary rights or are applying for customary marine title under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011.

If your permit area is near or affects the coastal areas of Ngāti Porou, you must consult ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou as well.

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Part 2Regime for offshore renewable energy permits and infrastructure protection
Feasibility permits

14Pre-application consultation requirements for feasibility permit applications

  1. The person who intends to make an application for a feasibility permit must consult the following groups before making the application:

  2. any relevant iwi authorities, hapū, and Treaty settlement entities, including—
    1. iwi authorities and groups that represent hapū that are parties to relevant Mana Whakahono ā Rohe or joint management agreements; and
      1. the tangata whenua of any area within the permit area that is a taiāpure-local fishery, a mātaitai reserve, or an area that is subject to bylaws made under Part 9 of the Fisheries Act 1996; and
      2. any relevant protected customary rights groups, customary marine title groups, and applicant groups with applications for customary marine title under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011; and
        1. ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou, if the permit area is within or adjacent to, or the development would directly affect, ngā rohe moana o ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou.