New Zealand Legislation: Regulations

17B Application must be decided in accordance with regional plan if regional plan provides for curved line path

• (1) An application to which regulation 17(3) applies must be granted or declined in accordance with the regional plan applying to the airshed if the regional plan complies with subclause (2).

  (2) The regional plan must contain—

  • (a) a curved line path that shows how the ambient air quality standard for PM₁₀ will be achieved in the airshed on or before 1 September 2013; and

  • (b) rules that ensure that an application for a resource consent is declined if the grant of the resource consent is likely to cause, at any time, the concentration of PM₁₀ in the airshed to be above the curved line path.

  (3) This regulation does not prevent an application declined under this regulation being decided under regulation 17C if that regulation applies to the application.

  Regulation 17B: inserted, on 25 August 2005, by regulation 6 of the Resource Management (National Environmental Standards Relating to Certain Air Pollutants, Dioxins, and Other Toxics) Amendment Regulations 2005 (SR 2005/214).