(1) This section applies to any activities or combinations of activities that have been identified by an approved organisation under section 16(1)(a) and included in a regional land transport programme.
(2) If an approved organisation has good reason to change any activities or combinations of activities to which this section applies, it may request the Agency to vary the national land transport programme to take account of that change, and must inform the regional transport committee that it has made that request.
(3) A request must be made in a form and with the detail prescribed by the Agency in writing to approved organisations.
(4) The Agency must consider promptly any request made under this section to vary the national land transport programme.
(5) A request made under this section does not create an obligation to vary the national land transport programme but the Agency must give written reasons for any decision not to do so.
(6) If the Agency approves a variation under subsection (4), the relevant regional land transport programme is to be read as if the approved variation had been included in the approved programme.
(7) This section does not apply to approved organisations in Auckland.
Section 18E: inserted, on 1 August 2008, by section 16 of the Land Transport Management Amendment Act 2008 (2008 No 47).
Section 18E(7): amended, on 1 November 2010, by section 113(1) of the Local Government (Auckland Transitional Provisions) Act 2010 (2010 No 37).