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Offshore Renewable Energy Bill

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

24: Pre-application consultation requirements for commercial permit applications

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"Talk to local Māori groups before applying for a commercial permit to use the ocean"

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If you want to apply for a commercial 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 certain areas.

You also need to talk to the tangata whenua of any areas within the permit area that have special fishing rules. Additionally, you must 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 Ngāti Porou's coastal area, you need to consult ngā hapū o Ngāti Porou.

When you do this consultation, it must be separate from other consultations you are required to do under section 14. You cannot combine these consultations, they must be done separately. This is an extra step you must take before you can apply for your commercial permit.

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

24Pre-application consultation requirements for commercial permit applications

  1. The person who intends to make an application for a commercial 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.

          1. The consultation under subsection (1)(a) must be separate from, and in addition to, the consultation carried out under section 14.