New Zealand Legislation: Regulations
Regulations are laws made under Acts
Reprint as at 1 June 2011
(SR 2004/309)
Silvia Cartwright, Governor-General
At Wellington this 6th day of September 2004
Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council
Regulation name: amended, on 1 June 2011, by regulation 4(2) of the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Air Quality) Amendment Regulations 2011 (SR 2011/103).
Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this reprint.
A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this reprint, together with other explanatory material about this reprint.
These regulations are administered by the Ministry for the Environment.
Pursuant to section 43 of the Resource Management Act 1991, Her Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council (given on the recommendation of the Minister for the Environment after consultation in accordance with section 44 of that Act), makes the following regulations.
Prohibitions and restrictions on discharges from certain activities
4 Prohibition on discharges from certain activities
5 Prohibition on granting of resource consents for certain activities
6 Lighting of fires and burning of waste at landfill
11 Incinerators at schools and healthcare institutions
12 High-temperature hazardous waste incinerators
Ambient air quality standards for contaminants
13 Ambient air quality standards
15 Regional council must monitor air quality if standard breached
16 Regional council must give public notice if standard breached
16A Exceptional circumstances causing breach of standard
16B Allowances for meeting PM10 standard
16C Meaningful PM10 data for airshed
16D Calculation of airshed's average exceedances of PM10 per year
Resource consents for discharges of PM10
17 Certain applications must be declined unless other PM10 discharges reduced
17A Application must be declined if discharges likely to cause concentration of PM10 in airshed to be above straight line path [Revoked]
17B Application must be decided in accordance with regional plan if regional plan provides for curved line path [Revoked]
17C Other applications must be declined unless discharges offset [Revoked]
18 Resource consents for PM10 discharges before 1 September 2013 if concentration in airshed does not breach standard [Revoked]
19 Resource consents for PM10 discharges after 31 August 2013 [Revoked]
Resource consents for discharges of other contaminants
20 Resource consents for discharge of carbon monoxide, oxides of nitrogen, and volatile organic compounds
21 Resource consents for discharge of sulphur dioxide
22 Discharge from woodburners installed on certain properties after 1 September 2005 prohibited
24 Thermal efficiency standard
Domestic solid-fuel burning open fires
24A Discharge from certain open fires prohibited
Control of greenhouse gas emissions at landfills
25 Application of regulations 26 and 27
More stringent rule, resource consent, or bylaw prevails
28 More stringent rule, resource consent, or bylaw prevails
Schedule 1
Ambient air quality standards for contaminants
Schedule 2
Monitoring methods for ambient air quality standards
Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Air Quality) Amendment Regulations 2011
