New Zealand Acts

RESOURCE MANAGEMENT AMENDMENT ACT 2005 - SECT 7

7 New section 24A inserted

The principal Act is amended by inserting, after section 24 , the following section:

24A Power of Minister for the Environment to investigate and make recommendations

The Minister for the Environment may—

a) investigate the exercise or performance by a local authority of any of its functions, powers, or duties under this Act; and

b) make recommendations to the local authority on its exercise or performance of those functions, powers, or duties; and

c) investigate the failure or omission by a local authority to exercise or perform any of its functions, powers, or duties under this Act; and

d) make recommendations to the local authority on its failure or omission to exercise or perform those functions, powers, or duties; and

e) take action under section 25 or section 25A if the local authority's failure or omission to act on a recommendation gives the Minister grounds to take action under 1 or both of those sections.