(1) This Act may be cited as the Resource Management Amendment Act 1996, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Resource Management Act 1991 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2) This Act shall come into force on the day on which it receives the Royal assent.

This section amended section 2(1) of the principal Act by substituting the definition of the term proposed plan.

This section inserted section 2A of the principal Act.

This section inserted section 10B of the principal Act.

(1) This subsection substituted section 247 of the principal Act.

(2) On and after the commencement of this section, every reference in the principal Act or any other Act or in any rule, regulation, bylaw, judgment, order, contract, agreement, or other document whatsoever—

• (a) To the Planning Tribunal shall be read as a reference to the Environment Court:

• (b) To a Planning Judge shall be read as a reference to an Environment Judge:

• (c) To a Planning Commissioner or a Deputy Planning Commissioner shall be read, respectively, as a reference to an Environment Commissioner or Deputy Environment Commissioner.

This section amended s 250(3)(a) of the principal Act.

This section inserted s 253(da) of the principal Act.

This subsection substituted section 254(3) and inserted s 254(4) of the principal Act.

This section amended section 255(1)(a) of the principal Act.

This section inserted section 271A of the principal Act.

This section amended section 273 of the principal Act.

This section amended section 274(1) of the principal Act.

This section substituted section 278(1) of the principal Act.

This section amended section 280 of the principal Act.

This section substituted section 289 of the principal Act.

This section amended section 300(5) of the principal Act.

This section inserted sections 343A to 343D, and the preceding heading of the principal Act.

This section inserted section 360(1)(ba) and (bb) of the principal Act.

This section inserted section 384A(12) of the principal Act.

This section inserted section 387(4)(aa) of the principal Act.

(1) This subsection substituted section 417A(1), and inserted s 417A(1A) and (1B) of the principal Act.

(2) The Resource Management (Transitional) Regulations 1994 (SR 1994/34) are hereby revoked.

(1) This subsection amended section 418 of the principal Act.

(2) This subsection amended section 418 of the principal Act.

(3) This subsection amended section 418 of the principal Act.

(4) The following regulations are hereby revoked:

• (a) The Resource Management (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1994 (SR 1994/197):

• (b) The Resource Management (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 1994, Amendment No 1 (SR 1995/60).

(1) This subsection amended section 424 of the principal Act.

(2) This subsection amended section 424 of the principal Act.

(3) Section 202(1) of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 is hereby consequentially repealed.

This section inserted clause 10(2) and (3) of Schedule 1 to the principal Act.

This section amended clause 11(1) of Schedule 1 to the principal Act.

This section inserted clause 16B(2) of Schedule 1 to the principal Act.

(1) Any proposed policy statement or proposed plan, or policy statement or plan, or part thereof, on which a decision has been made, under clause 10 of Schedule 1 to the principal Act, before the commencement of this Act shall not be invalid because it includes decisions that were consequential alterations arising out of submissions or other relevant matters the local authority considered relating to matters raised in submissions.

(2) Any proposed policy statement or proposed plan, or policy statement or plan, or part thereof, on which a decision has been made, under clause 10 of Schedule 1 to the principal Act, before the commencement of this Act shall be deemed to include any amendment which was made as a result of decisions on submissions to that proposed policy statement or proposed plan, whether or not those decisions were publicly notified.

(3) For the purposes of subsection (2) of this section, the amendments made as a result of decisions shall be deemed to have been included in the proposed policy statement or proposed plan from the date the local authority gave its decision under clause 10 of Schedule 1 to the principal Act.