Reprint as at 21 December 2007
(SR 2007/396)
Anand Satyanand, Governor-General
At Wellington this 17th day of December 2007
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
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.
The Resource Management (National Environmental Standards for Sources of Human Drinking Water) Regulations 2007 are administered by the Ministry for the Environment.
Pursuant to section 43 of the Resource Management Act 1991, His 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.
4 Meaning of meets the health quality criteria
5 Meaning of does not meet the health quality criteria
6 Type of activity to which regulations 7 and 8 apply
7 Granting of water permit or discharge permit upstream of abstraction point where drinking water meets health quality criteria
8 Granting of water permit or discharge permit upstream of abstraction point where drinking water not tested or does not meet health quality criteria
9 Type of activity to which regulation 10 applies
10 Limitations on permitted activity rules for activities upstream of abstraction points
Resource consents in respect of activities with potential to affect certain drinking-water supplies
11 Type of activity to which regulation 12 applies
12 Condition on resource consent if activity may significantly adversely affect registered drinking-water supply
Consent authority requirements may be more stringent than regulation requirements
13 Consent authority may impose requirements more stringent than requirements in these regulations
14 Regional council not required to immediately amend rules in plan
15 Proposed plan not affected by these regulations if submissions already closed