New Zealand Legislation: Acts

88 Making an application

• (1) A person may apply to the relevant consent authority for a resource consent.

  (2) An application must—

  • (a) be made in the prescribed form and manner; and

  • (b) include, in accordance with Schedule 4, an assessment of environmental effects in such detail as corresponds with the scale and significance of the effects that the activity may have on the environment.

  (2A) An application for a coastal permit to undertake an aquaculture activity must include a copy for the Ministry of Fisheries.

  (3) If an application does not include an adequate assessment of environmental effects or the information required by regulations, a consent authority may, within 5 working days after the application was first lodged, determine that the application is incomplete and return the application, with written reasons for the determination, to the applicant.

  (4) If, after an application has been returned as incomplete, that application is lodged again with the consent authority, that application is to be treated as a new application.

  (5) Sections 357 to 358 apply to a determination that an application is incomplete.

  Section 88: substituted, on 1 August 2003, by section 37 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2003 (2003 No 23).

  Section 88(1): amended, on 1 October 2009, by section 150 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).

  Section 88(2A): inserted, on 1 October 2011, by section 21 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 70).

  Section 88(3): amended, on 1 October 2009, by section 150 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).

  Section 88(4): amended, on 1 October 2009, by section 150 of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).

  Section 88(5): amended, on 10 August 2005, by section 50 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).