Pursuant to section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991, the Minister for the Environment hereby gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited as the Resource Management (Revocation of Approval of The Radio Network Central Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice 2006.
(2) This notice shall come into force on the 28th day after the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Revocation of approval as requiring authority—The approval of The Radio Network Central Limited as a requiring authority pursuant to The Resource Management (Approval of The Radio Network Central Limited as Requiring Authority) Notice (No. 1) 1996 for every project or work in respect of which:
(a) a designation is included or is deemed to be
included in a district plan, or is to be included in
a district plan by virtue of section 420 (2) (b) of
the Resource Management Act 1991, for which
The Radio Company Limited (including under its previous name of Radio New Zealand Limited) or
its predecessor, the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand, has been or is the requiring authority or where The Radio Network Central Limited could be the requiring authority; or
(b) written notice could be, has been, or may be given by The Radio Company Limited (including under its previous name of Radio New Zealand Limited) or
its predecessor, the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand, or The Radio Network Central Limited, being the requiring authority for a designation which has not lapsed, to a territorial authority requiring that 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 The Radio Company Limited (including under its previous name of Radio New Zealand Limited) or its predecessor, the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand, 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 for which The Radio Company
Limited (including under its previous name of
Radio New Zealand Limited) or its predecessor,
the Broadcasting Corporation of New Zealand, has been or is the requiring authority.
(e) any radiocommunication or telecommunication facility of its network in respect of any site of
which The Radio Network Central Limited, The Radio Company Limited, or The Radio Network
of New Zealand Limited or any subsidiary company (as defined in the Companies Act 1993) of The Radio Network of New Zealand Limited is an owner or a holder of any estate or interest; and
(f) the operation, erection, installation, maintenance, replacement, alteration, improvement, removal and other 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*
is hereby revoked on the basis that The Radio Network Central Limited is no longer a network utility operator.
Dated at Wellington this 6th day of November 2006.
DAVID BENSON-POPE, Minister for the Environment.
*New Zealand Gazette, 12 December 1996, No. 180, page 4727