This fact sheet provides a comprehensive overview of the new regulations aimed at enhancing the management of emergencies and natural hazards.
Key changes include amending requirements to notify occupiers when authorities enter land to undertake emergency works; vesting new regulation-making powers in the Minister for the Environment to support effective response and recovery during emergency events; extending statutory timeframes for obtaining retrospective consent for emergency works; clarifying and reinforcing the authority to decline or impose conditions on land-use consents for natural hazards; and immediately enforcing rules pertaining to natural hazard management.
Read more about the Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Act.
This fact sheet provides a comprehensive overview of the new regulations aimed at enhancing the management of emergencies and natural hazards.
Key changes include amending requirements to notify occupiers when authorities enter land to undertake emergency works; vesting new regulation-making powers in the Minister for the Environment to support effective response and recovery during emergency events; extending statutory timeframes for obtaining retrospective consent for emergency works; clarifying and reinforcing the authority to decline or impose conditions on land-use consents for natural hazards; and immediately enforcing rules pertaining to natural hazard management.
Read more about the Resource Management (Consenting and Other System Changes) Amendment Act.