Resource Management Act 1991

165O Period of approval

• (1) An approval to use a public tender or other method to allocate authorisations applies on and from the date on which the relevant Gazette notice is published until the earliest of the following dates:

  • (a) the date on which it is expressed in the relevant Gazette notice to expire or any date substituted under subsection (3); or

  • (b) the date it lapses under section 165P(2); or

  • (c) the date it is revoked by a further notice in the Gazette under subsection (2).

  (2) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, revoke an approval to use a public tender or other allocation method to allocate authorisations if the Minister—

  • (a) is requested to do so by the regional council; and

  • (b) considers that—

    • (i) there are no longer actual or likely high demand or competing demands for coastal permits to occupy the space for the relevant activity or activities; or

    • (ii) the regional council has in place other methods that will satisfactorily manage actual or likely high demand or competing demands for coastal permits to occupy the space for the relevant activity or activities.

  (3) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, substitute another date in the relevant Gazette notice for the date on which the relevant Gazette notice is to expire if—

  • (a) the Minister receives a request from the regional council to do so; and

  • (b) the Minister considers that—

    • (i) there remains actual or likely high demand or competing demands for coastal permits to occupy the space for the relevant activity or activities; and

    • (ii) the regional council does not have in place other methods that will satisfactorily manage the high demand or competing demands.

  Section 165O: replaced, on 1 October 2011, by section 49 of the Resource Management Amendment Act (No 2) 2011 (2011 No 70).