This page contains different parts of laws about Climate and energy.
257A: Fees for audits
DB 46: Avoiding, remedying, or mitigating effects of discharge of contaminant or making of noise
62D: Restriction on connection and operation of specified generation plant
62E: Additional penalty for breach involving commercial gain
62F: Minister of Energy may grant exemption
62G: Minister of Energy may only grant exemption if satisfied of certain matters
62I: Public consultation on recommendations
62J: Publication of exemption and reasons
62O: Regulations for purposes of this Part
192: Wastage of water
CB 36: Disposal of emissions units
CW 3B: Pre-1990 forest land units: emissions trading scheme
DB 60: Acquisition of emissions units
DB 61: Surrender of certain emissions units for post-1989 forest land emissions
GC 4B: Disposals of ETS units at below market value
2: Interpretation
4A: Application of this Act to ships and aircraft of foreign States
5: Purpose
7: Other matters
14: Restrictions relating to water
15: Discharge of contaminants into environment
15B: Discharge of harmful substances from ships or offshore installations
17: Duty to avoid, remedy, or mitigate adverse effects
21: Avoiding unreasonable delay
24: Functions of Minister for the Environment
26: Minister may make grants and loans
30: Functions of regional councils under this Act
32: Requirements for preparing and publishing evaluation reports
37B: Persons to have powers of consent authority for purposes of sections 37 and 37A
43: Regulations prescribing national environmental standards
43A: Contents of national environmental standards
43C: Relationship between national environmental standards and water conservation orders
43D: Relationship between national environmental standards and designations
43F: Description of discharges in national environmental standards for discharges
43G: Incorporation of material by reference in national environmental standards
44: Restriction on power to make national environmental standards
45: Purpose of national policy statements (other than New Zealand coastal policy statements)
46: Proposed national policy statement
46A: Single process for preparing national directions
46B: Incorporation of material by reference in national direction
47: Board of inquiry
49: Submissions to board of inquiry
51: Matters to be considered and board of inquiry's report
52: Consideration of recommendations and approval or withdrawal of statement
61: Matters to be considered by regional council (policy statements)
62: Contents of regional policy statements
65: Preparation and change of other regional plans
66: Matters to be considered by regional council (plans)
68: Regional rules
70A: Application to climate change of rules relating to discharge of greenhouse gases
70B: Implementation of national environmental standards
79A: Circumstance when further review required
82A: Dispute relating to review under section 79A
104E: Applications relating to discharge of greenhouse gases
104F: Implementation of national environmental standards
107A: Restrictions on grant of resource consents
108A: Bonds
112: Obligation to pay rent and royalties deemed condition of consent
124: Exercise of resource consent while applying for new consent
124B: Applications by existing holders of resource consents
128: Circumstances when consent conditions can be reviewed
131: Matters to be considered in review
136: Transferability of water permits
138A: Special provisions relating to coastal permits for dumping and incineration
160: Notice of acceptance of tender
171: Recommendation by territorial authority
217: Effect of water conservation order
254: Appointment of Environment Commissioner or Deputy Environment Commissioner
256: Oath of office
258: Removal of members
261: Protection from legal proceedings
266: Constitution of the Environment Court not to be questioned
267: Conferences
281: Waivers and directions
282: Application of Contempt of Court Act 2019
289: Reply to appeal or request for inquiry
291: Other proceedings before court
302: Parties to the appeal before the High Court
307: Date of hearing
310: Scope and effect of declaration
315: Compliance with enforcement order
324: Form and content of abatement notice
329: Water shortage direction
338: Offences against this Act
341: Strict liability and defences
344: Interpretation
345: Purpose and principles
351: Regulations
355AB: Application for renewals
360: Regulations
362: Consequential amendments
364: Application of this Part
365: Meaning of permission
368: Existing notices, bylaws, etc, to become regional plans
369: Provisions deemed to be regional rules
381: Existing notices deemed to be abatement notices
385: Existing clean air permissions to become discharge permits
386: Existing rights and authorities under Water and Soil Conservation Act 1967
387: Existing geothermal licences and authorisations deemed to be water permits
391: Applications for licences and approvals under Clean Air Act 1972
391A: Resource consents following approval under Clean Air Act 1972
392: Provisions of Clean Air Act 1972 may be considered on applications for resource consents for discharging contaminants into the air
413: Current mining privileges to become deemed permits
429: Savings as to compensation claims
Schedule 1: Preparation, change, and review of policy statements and plans
42C: Functions of EPA
44A: Local authority recognition of national environmental standards
47A: Board of inquiry to suspend consideration or consider additional material
51A: Withdrawal of proposed national policy statement
Schedule 1AA: Incorporation of documents by reference in national environmental standards, national policy statements, and New Zealand coastal policy statements
Schedule 2: Matters that may be provided for in policy statements and plans
Schedule 3: Water quality classes
149J: Minister to appoint board of inquiry
149N: Process if section 149M applies or proposed plan or change not yet prepared
149V: Appeal from decisions only on question of law
Schedule 5: Provisions applying in respect of the Hazards Control Commission
Schedule 6: Enactments repealed
Schedule 7: Regulations and orders revoked
Schedule 8: Enactments amended
308D: Limit on appealing under this Act
308F: Surrogate must disclose status
308H: Costs orders if declaration made
Schedule 12: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
DB 60B: Liabilities for emissions
1: Title
3: Act binds the Crown
4: Purpose
5: Interpretation
6: Extended meaning of breach
7: Industry participants
8: Transpower is system operator
9: Obligation to register and comply with Code
12: Authority established
14: Independence of members of Authority
15: Objectives of Authority
16: Functions of Authority
17: Statements of government policy
18: Reviews on request by Minister
19: Charter about advisory groups
20: Security and Reliability Council
21: Other advisory groups
22: Application of Crown Entities Act 2004
24: Membership of Rulings Panel
27: Register of industry participants
28: Transfer of old information to register
30: Ceasing to be registered
31: Offences relating to registration
32: Content of Code
33: Status of Code
34: Content of initial Code
35: Certification of draft Code
36: Code comes into force
37: Making Code accessible
38: Authority amends Code
39: Consultation on proposed amendments
40: Urgent amendments to Code
41: Authority to publish consultation charter
42: Specific new matters to be in Code
43: Minister may amend Code to include new matters
44: Transmission agreements
51: Interim injunctions
52: Limitation periods for breaches of Code
54: Remedial orders for breach of Code
55: Restrictions on remedies
56: Pecuniary penalty orders
57: Offence to breach certain orders of Rulings Panel
58: Suspension and termination for breach of certain Rulings Panel orders
59: Effect of suspension and termination orders
60: Offences relating to suspension and termination orders
62: Orders generally
65: Appeal against certain orders of Rulings Panel
69: Provisions pending determination of appeal
73: Ownership separation
74: Meaning of involved in
75: Ownership separation
76: Corporate separation and arm's-length rules applying to distributors and connected generators and connected retailers
77: Use-of-systems agreements
78: Person involved in distributor must not pay for transfer of retail customers to connected retailers
79: No discrimination when paying rebates or dividends
80: Pecuniary penalties
81: Injunctions
82: Actions for damages
83: Other powers to give directions, reopen agreements
84: Miscellaneous provisions relating to civil proceedings under this Part
85: Application of Commerce Act 1986 provisions
87: Application to persons outside New Zealand
88: Disclosure of information to Authority
90: Exemptions
92: Not interconnected under Commerce Act 1986
93: Illegal contracts
94: Substance matters, not form
105: Continuance of distributors' supply obligation
106: Cessation and suspension of supply obligation
107: Proposal to supply electricity from alternative source
108: Application of other enactments
110: Class exemptions relating to registration and Code compliance
111: Class exemptions relating to membership of dispute resolution scheme
112: Regulations relating to monitoring, investigating, and enforcing Code
113: Regulations about tariffs and other consumer issues
114: Regulations promoting accountability in customer trusts and community trusts
115: General regulation-making power
128: Levies
129: Authority consultation about request for appropriation
132: Interpretation
133: Electricity Commission dissolved
134: Consequences of dissolution
141: Members of Rulings Panel
142: Work of Rulings Panel
143: Investigations relating to separation of distribution from generation and retailing
144: Exemptions granted under Electricity Industry Reform Act 1998
146: Interpretation
149: Interpretation for subpart
150: Meaning of electricity lines services
151: Definition of consumer-owned
152: How exempt status can be lost and default/customised price-quality regulation can be applied to consumer-owned suppliers
153: Administrative settlements with Transpower made before 1 April 2009
155: New heading and sections 54R and 54S substituted
156: New section 54V substituted
157: Amendments to Energy (Fuels, Levies, and References) Act 1989
158: Part 2 repealed
159: Purpose of levies
160: Amendments to Electricity Act 1992
162: Interpretation
163: New section 43A inserted
164: Consequential amendments and repeal of spent provisions
165: Repeal of Electricity Industry Reform Act 1998
Schedule 1: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
Schedule 3: Arm's-length rules
Schedule 4: Dispute resolution scheme
Schedule 6: Amendments to other enactments
4: Declaration of electricity distributors as electricity operators
4A: Declaration of electricity generators as electricity operators
16A: Transfer of accident information
22: Protection of existing works
23: Rights of entry in respect of existing works
23F: Disputes about land access
24: Construction or maintenance of works on roads
25: Notice to be given before work undertaken
28: Determination of appeals
30: Charging for access to road reserve
31: Rights of entry in respect of level crossings
32: Local authority, etc, may require works to be moved
33: Cost of work required under section 32
34: Government Roading Powers Act 1989 not to apply
35: Owners and occupiers of private land may move works
36: Issue of electrical code of practice
44: Rural Electrical Reticulation Council
45: Functions of Council
46: Council to comply with government policies
47: Further provisions applying to Council
49: Interest on levies
50: Application of levies
51: Transitional provision relating to subsidies
52: Transitional provision relating to membership of Council
54: Dissolution of Council
58: Compensation for trees and vegetation removed
60: Standards for electricity supply
61: Safety requirements
62: Continuance of supply
63: Regulations relating to price of electricity
64: Definition of domestic premises
65: Offences
67: Expiry of this Part
69: Licence to supply electricity
70: Offence
71: Supply of electricity to consumers outside supply area
72: Duty to supply
73: Expiry of this Part
74: Restrictions on doing or assisting with prescribed electrical work
82: Testing, certification, and inspection
158: Review of operation of Act
158C: Auditor of trusts
158G: Complaints resolution system
169: Regulations
169A: Regulations that prescribe requirements for safety management systems
169B: Miscellaneous provisions relating to regulations that prescribe requirements for safety management systems
170: Regulations relating to information disclosure
170A: Regulations relating to ability of consumers to choose preferred electricity retailer
171A: Reasonable charge may be imposed for providing copies of statements
172: Offences
172A: Outline of subpart
172B: Low fixed charge tariff option for domestic consumers
172C: Regulations for code on access for beneficiaries of customer and community trusts
172CA: Reserve energy
172D: Electricity governance regulations
172E: Conditions and process for recommendations on electricity governance regulations
172F: Assessment of proposed electricity governance regulations
172G: Process for recommendations on other electricity governance regulations
172H: Electricity governance rules
172I: Method of making electricity governance rules
172J: Supplementary empowering provision for regulations and rules
172K: Supplementary empowering provision for regulations
172KA: Transmission agreements
172KC: Privileges protected
172KE: Rulings Panel may make certain orders
172KF: Restriction of remedies
172KJ: Appeals on question of law in relation to decisions by Commission or Rulings Panel
172KL: Persons entitled to appeal
172KP: High Court may order proceedings be heard in private
172KQ: Appeal to Court of Appeal in certain cases
172L: Purpose
172M: Continuation of Commission
172N: Principal objectives and specific outcomes
172O: Functions of Commission
172P: Body corporate status and powers
172Q: Role of board of the Commission
172V: Notice of special meetings of Commission's board
172W: EGB to make recommendations concerning electricity governance regulations and rules
172X: Objectives of recommendations
172Z: Minister must have regard to recommendations
172ZA: Power to direct EGB
172ZB: Procedure for giving direction
172ZC: Levy of industry participants
172ZI: Application of subpart
172ZJ: Interpretation
172ZK: Setting of GPS objectives and outcomes
172ZL: Annual performance standards
172ZM: Additional information to be included in annual report
172ZO: Assurance audit by Auditor-General
172ZP: Report by Parliamentary Commissioner for Environment
172ZR: Specific authorisation for purposes of restrictive trade practices rules
175: Savings
176: Application of Clutha Development (Clyde Dam) Empowering Act 1982
177: Middle line Proclamation relating to Hairini-Mount Maunganui transmission line
178: Rights of entry for energy companies
180: Transitional provision relating to electricity agreements
Schedule 1: Provisions applying in respect of Rural Electrical Reticulation Council
Schedule 3: Enactments repealed
Schedule 4: Enactments amended
Schedule 5: Regulations and orders revoked
Schedule 6: Regulations deemed to have been made pursuant to section 169
61A: Electricity generators and electricity distributors must have safety management systems
147C: Restriction on entry to dwellinghouse
163B: Offence to breach requirement to have safety management system
45: Purposes of exercise of Authority's monitoring, investigation, enforcement, and review powers
116: Interpretation for subpart
117: Directions that may be given by shareholding Ministers
120: Purposes of sections 121 to 126
121: Process for Meridian and Genesis to recommend changes to permit conditions in respect of Waitaki Power Scheme
122: Minister may change permit conditions by order
123: Existing agreements with other parties in respect of Waitaki Power Scheme
124: Reconfiguration of existing agreements
125: Other provisions about directions
126: Interface with Resource Management Act 1991
Schedule 5: Existing agreements in respect of Waitaki Power Scheme
2: Commencement
25: Function of Rulings Panel
46: Authority's monitoring, investigation, enforcement, and review powers
47: Power to search
49: Authority may suspend trading in case of insolvency
50: Complaints, appeals, and disputes
118: Process for giving directions
119: Legal effect of directions
130: Specific authorisations for purposes of Commerce Act 1986
131: Distributors and grid owners exempt from liability for certain outages
140: References to Electricity Governance Rules 2003 and certain regulations
148: Commission's costs in setting customised price-quality path
161: Purposes
3: Purposes
5: Overview
8: Building: what it means and includes
9: Building: what it does not include
11: Role of chief executive
12: Role of building consent authority and territorial authority
15: Outline of this Part
16: Building code: purpose
17: All building work must comply with building code
19: How compliance with building code is established
41: Building consent not required in certain cases
43: Building consent not required for energy work
70: Applications relating to energy work
94: Matters for consideration by building consent authority in deciding issue of code compliance certificate
103: Content of compliance schedule
105: Obligations of owner if compliance schedule is issued
112: Alterations to existing buildings
134: When owner must classify dam
141: Content of dam safety assurance programme
149: Who is recognised engineer
173: Function of panel
222: Inspections by territorial authority
230: Conditions of authorisation
256: Chief executive may appoint dam owner accreditation body
257: Requirements for dam owner accreditation body
259: Revocation of accreditation
270: Annual review of product certificate
271: Suspension or revocation of product certificate
274: Purpose of registers
361: Rules made when approved by Minister
392: Building consent authority not liable
396: Application of sections 397 to 399
400: Regulations: building code
401: Regulations: acceptable solutions, verifications, etc, that must be complied with in order to comply with building code
405: Incorporation of material by reference into certain instruments, solutions, and methods
406: Effect of amendments to, or replacement of, material incorporated by reference
410: Access to material incorporated by reference
416: Outline of transitional provisions
435: Transitional provision for notices issued under former Act
451: Chief executive must review building code
Schedule 4: Enactments amended
109: Regulations identifying industry participants and market operation service provider roles
154: Proposals for customised price-quality paths
24A: Criteria for setting reasonable conditions
127: Whirinaki
136: References to reserve generation capacity in resource consents
GC 3B: Disposals of emissions units
14A: Outline of responsibilities under this Act
401A: Regulations: building consents and consent completion certificates
FZ 7: Valuation of group assets: insurance proceeds from Canterbury earthquake
434: Transitional provisions for amendments made on or after commencement of Resource Management Amendment Act 2013
134B: Method of classification
135A: Certifying engineer must notify regional authority and owner if dam dangerous
Schedule 1: Building work for which building consent not required
5B: WorkSafe and Secretary must share information
212: Regulations relating to hazardous substances
EZ 23BC: Property acquired after depreciable property affected by Hurunui/Kaikōura earthquakes
EZ 79: Insurance for Hurunui/Kaikōura earthquake damage of property: limit on depreciation recovery income
3B: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
45A: Contents of national policy statements
58C: Scope and contents of national planning standards
58D: Preparation of national planning standards
133AM: Deadline for completing seismic work
Schedule 1AA: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
133AD: Meaning of low, medium, and high seismic risk
129A: Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority consultation about request for appropriation
131A: Application of electricity industry legislation to secondary networks
169D: Legal effect of electricity safety instruments
169C: Minister may approve electricity safety instruments
169E: Minister may delegate approval of electricity safety instruments to WorkSafe
CX 54B: Transfers of emissions units under certain excepted financial arrangements
DB 17B: Transfers of emissions units under certain excepted financial arrangements
EW 52B: Excepted financial arrangements involving pre-1990 forest land emissions units
64A: Shareholders may require additional plans
133BU: Owner directed to give information
133BX: Works for long-term use or occupation of building
2A: Transitional, savings, and related provisions
6A: Meaning of involved in
40A: Revocation of urgent amendments
44A: Distribution agreements
22A: Minister may establish Small Electricity Consumers Agency
22B: Function of agency
44B: Minister may amend Code to include specified matters
44C: Interpretation
44D: Not interconnected under Commerce Act 1986
44E: Illegal contracts
44F: Substance matters, not form
47A: Sharing of information and documents with public service agencies, statutory entities, gas industry body, and overseas regulators
113A: Regulations about small business consumers
129B: Small Electricity Consumers Agency consultation about request for appropriation
131B: Material incorporated by reference
9A: Meaning of building product
9B: Meaning of building method
330AAA: Modification of requirements in section 330(3) for authorities in affected areas
330AA: Modification of requirements in section 330A for activities undertaken in affected areas
331D: Duty to gather information, monitor, and keep records
CZ 24B: Employee benefits for North Island flooding events relief: not fringe benefits
165ZFHO: Final right of appeal
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