Resource Management Act 1991

104F Implementation of national environmental standards

• If a national environmental standard is made to control the effects on climate change of the discharge into air of greenhouse gases, a consent authority, when considering an application for a discharge permit or coastal permit to do something that would otherwise contravene section 15 or section 15B,—

  • (a) may grant the application, with or without conditions, or decline it, as necessary to implement the standard; but

  • (b) in making its determination, must be no more or less restrictive than is necessary to implement the standard.

  Section 104F: inserted, on 2 March 2004, by section 7 of the Resource Management (Energy and Climate Change) Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 2).

  Section 104F heading: amended, on 10 August 2005, by section 61(1) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).

  Section 104F: amended, on 10 August 2005, by section 61(2)(a) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).

  Section 104F(a): amended, on 10 August 2005, by section 61(2)(b) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).

  Section 104F(b): amended, on 10 August 2005, by section 61(2)(b) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 2005 (2005 No 87).