Resource Management Act 1991

227 Cancellation of prior approvals

• (1) Where—

  • (a) before or after the date of commencement of this Act, a survey plan has been deposited under the Land Transfer Act 1952 or under any other authority or in the Deeds Register Office; and

  • (b) a survey plan of the same land is deposited in accordance with section 224,—

  the approval given to the first-mentioned survey plan on or before the date of deposit of the second-mentioned survey plan shall, except as to conditions to which sections 221, and 243 or the equivalent provisions of any former enactment apply,—

  • (c) be deemed to be cancelled; or

  • (d) where the land in the second-mentioned survey plan is part only of the land in the first-mentioned survey plan, be deemed to be cancelled so far as it relates to the land in the second-mentioned survey plan.

  (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the deposit of a unit plan, or to a survey plan which gives effect to the grant of a lease to which section 218(1)(a)(iii) applies, or a cross lease or company lease.

  Section 227(1): amended, on 17 December 1997, by section 43 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 104).

  Section 227(2): inserted, on 7 July 1993, by section 122 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).