This request and release is about resource management (Simplifying and Streamlining) amendment bill.
Response date
17 October 2019
Type
Departmental
This request and release is about resource management (Simplifying and Streamlining) amendment bill.
Response date
17 October 2019
Type
Departmental
Details of the request
I am wanting to try and track down a copy of the briefing document presented by MFE to the Local government and environment select committee.
The relevant reference is from the ECan plan change 3 hearings […] At the hearing for Plan Change 3 the Panel asked whether it was bound by decisions of the Environment Court and higher courts. In response, on 18 November 2015, counsel for the Otaio Water Users Group tabled a Local Government and Environment Select Committee Briefing document prepared by the Ministry for the Environment. That document sets out the opinion that local authorities making decisions are not bound by stare decisis [sic].
I would be very grateful if you could provide a reference or copy of that document.