The Minister for the Environment is able to ‘call-in’ and decide on applications on the grounds that she considers they will have significant effects. The Royal Commission recommended that the HSNO Act be extended to include significant cultural, ethical and spiritual issues as grounds for the Minister’s call-in powers. The Government agreed to include significant cultural, ethical and spiritual effects as grounds for call-in of an application.
7.1 Summary
It is proposed that the call-in grounds be amended to include significant cultural effects and that ‘cultural’ be defined in the Act to include ‘ethical or spiritual’. This would allow the Minister to make a decision on an application that she considers to have significant cultural, ethical and spiritual effects after considering advice from ERMA.
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7. Grounds for ministerial call-in
September 2002
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