Land Information New Zealand (Fees and Charges) Amendment Regulations 2021

2021/274

Coat of Arms of New Zealand

Land Information New Zealand (Fees and Charges) Amendment Regulations 2021

Patsy Reddy, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 27th day of September 2021

Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council

These regulations are made under section 48 of the Cadastral Survey Act 2002, section 184A of the Land Act 1948, and section 227 of the Land Transfer Act 2017 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council.

Regulations

1 Title

These regulations are the Land Information New Zealand (Fees and Charges) Amendment Regulations 2021.

2 Commencement

(1)

Regulations 5(1) and (2) come into force on 1 November 2021.

(2)

The rest of these regulations come into force on 1 February 2022.

3 Principal regulations

These regulations amend the Land Information New Zealand (Fees and Charges) Regulations 2003.

4 Regulation 4 amended (Fees and charges)

After regulation 4(5), insert:

(6)

The fees and charges specified in the Schedule include components of both operational processing costs and costs of provision and maintenance of associated facilities, including electronic facilities.

5 Schedule amended

(1)

Revoke Part 2 of the Schedule.

(2)

In the Schedule, Part 1, item relating to renewal of a digital certificate, first column, replace “renewal of” with “subscription to”.

(3)

In the Schedule, replace Part 3 with the Part 3 set out in the Schedule of these regulations.

(4)

In the Schedule, Part 7, item 2A, third column, replace “223” with “260”.

Schedule Part 3 of Schedule replaced

r 5(3)

Part 3 Searches for cadastral data

ServiceCharge ($)
For providing a copy of a survey plan via an approved electronic facility or other means determined under section 40(3) of the Land Transfer Act 20176
For manually providing a copy of a survey plan25
For manually providing a copy of survey records—
(a)

for the first page

25
(b)

for each subsequent page

1

Michael Webster,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations amend the Land Information New Zealand (Fees and Charges) Regulations 2003. Except for the changes in regulation 5(1) and (2), these regulations come into force on 1 February 2022. Those other changes (which relate to the removal of licence fees and a change to wording of the item relating to the digital certificate fee) come into force on 1 November 2021.

These regulations—

  • increase the electronic search fee from $5 to $6 and the manual search fee from $15 to $25:

  • increase the fee for lodging plans that are not cadastral survey datasets from $223 to $260:

  • remove licence fees:

  • include an amendment that recognises that the fees specified in the regulations include components of both operational processing costs and costs of provision and maintenance of associated facilities, including electronic facilities.

Regulatory impact statement

Land Information New Zealand produced a regulatory impact statement on 2 June 2021 to help inform the decisions taken by the Government relating to the contents of this instrument.

A copy of this regulatory impact statement can be found at—

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 30 September 2021.

These regulations are administered by Land Information New Zealand.