New Zealand Legislation: Acts

43 Regulations prescribing national environmental standards

• (1) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations, to be known as national environmental standards, that prescribe any or all of the following technical standards, methods, or requirements:

  • (a) standards for the matters referred to in section 9, section 11, section 12, section 13, section 14, or section 15, including, but not limited to—

    • (i) contaminants:

    • (ii) water quality, level, or flow:

    • (iii) air quality:

    • (iv) soil quality in relation to the discharge of contaminants:

  • (b) standards for noise:

  • (c) standards, methods, or requirements for monitoring.

  (2) The regulations may include:

  • (a) qualitative or quantitative standards:

  • (b) standards for any discharge or the ambient environment:

  • (c) methods for classifying a natural or physical resource:

  • (d) methods, processes, or technology to implement standards:

  • (e) exemptions from standards:

  • (f) transitional provisions for standards, methods, or requirements.

  (3) Section 360(2) applies to all regulations made under this section.

  Section 43: substituted, on 20 May 2003, by section 18 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 23).

  Section 43(1)(a): amended, on 10 August 2005, by section 27 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).