Section 56 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

(a) by inserting in subsection (1) "and which is a permit issued by the planning authority" after "that land" ;

(b) by omitting paragraph (a) from subsection (2) and substituting the following paragraphs:

(aa) is not an amendment of a condition or restriction, specified in the permit, that is required, imposed or amended by the Appeal Tribunal; and

(a) does not change the effect of a condition or restriction, specified in the permit, that is required, imposed or amended by the Appeal Tribunal; and

(c) by inserting the following subsections after subsection (2) :

(2A)  An amendment of a condition or restriction specified in a permit is not to be taken to contravene subsection (2)(a) by reason only that other conditions or restrictions have been specified in the permit, or amended, by the Appeal Tribunal.

(2B)  A condition or restriction ( the fresh condition or restriction ) specified by the planning authority in a permit is not to be taken, for the purposes of this section, to be required or imposed by the Appeal Tribunal if –

(a) the fresh condition or restriction is to the same effect as a condition or restriction that was specified in the permit by the Appeal Tribunal before the planning authority specified the fresh condition or restriction in the permit; and

(b) the fresh condition or restriction is not referred to in the decision, in relation to the permit, of the Appeal Tribunal under section 23 of the Resource Management and Planning Appeal Tribunal Act 1993 .