Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Resource Management (Approval of Radio

New Zealand Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 2001
Pursuant to section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991, the Minister for the Environment gives the following notice.
N o t i c e
1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice is the Resource Management (Approval of Radio New Zealand Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 2001.
(2) This notice comes into force on the 28th day after the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Interpretation-(1) In this notice, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Radiocommunication or telecommunication facility" means any line, cable, mast, pole, aerial, tower, antenna, dish, fixed radio station, radio apparatus, or other building, structure, facility or apparatus intended for, associated with, or ancillary to, radiocommunication or telecommunication;
(b) "Fixed radio station", "radio apparatus", "radiocommunication" and "telecommunication" have the same meanings as in section 2 (1) of the Telecommunications Act 1987;
(c) "Network" means the system of radiocommunication or telecommunication facilities which Radio
New Zealand Limited operates or uses, or may in future operate or use, for the purpose of radiocommunication or telecommunication;
(d) "Predecessors" includes Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand and New Zealand Public Radio Limited.
(2) In this notice, any reference to an enactment is deemed to include a reference to all subsequent enactments passed in amendment or substitution for that enactment.
3. Approval as requiring authority for every project or work relating to designations and related processes-
(1) Radio New Zealand Limited is approved as a requiring authority, under section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991, for every project or work for which:
(a) a designation is included or is deemed to be included in a district plan, or must be included in a district plan in accordance with section 420 (2) (b) of the Resource Management Act 1991, and Radio
New Zealand Limited or its predecessors has been or is the requiring authority or Radio New Zealand Limited could be the requiring authority; or
(b) written notice could have been or has been given by Radio New Zealand Limited or its predecessors, or could be given by Radio New Zealand Limited, as the requiring authority for a designation, to a territorial authority requiring the designation to be included in the proposed district plan, with or without modification, under clause 4 of the First Schedule to the Resource Management Act 1991 (or under the former section 183 of that Act); or
(c) a notice of requirement has been given by Radio
New Zealand Limited or its predecessors, or could be given by Radio New Zealand Limited under section 168 of the Resource Management Act 1991; or
(d) provision is included in a proposed district plan (including any change or variation) for any designation and Radio New Zealand Limited or its predecessors has been or is the requiring authority for that designation; or
(e) a designation is included in a district plan, and Radio New Zealand Limited or its predecessors has been or is the requiring authority for that designation.
4. Approval as requiring authority in respect of other projects or works-(1) Radio New Zealand Limited is approved as a requiring authority, under section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991, for every project or work for:
(a) any radiocommunication or telecommunication facility of the network of Radio New Zealand Limited or of any network of any of its predecessors; and
(b) the operation, erection, installation, maintenance, replacement, alteration, improvement, removal and other use, including ancillary use, of land (within the meaning of section 9 (4) of the Resource Management Act 1991) in respect of any such radiocommunication or telecommunication facility.
Dated at Wellington this 31st day of January 2001.
PETE HODGSON, for the Minister for the Environment.