Pursuant to section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991, the Minister for the Environment hereby gives the following notice.

N o t i c e

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited as the Resource Management (Approval of NZ Transport Agency as a Requiring Authority) Notice 2015.

(2) This notice shall come into force on the 28th day after the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

2. Application of notice—This notice shall apply in addition to and not in substitution for The Resource Management (Approval of Transit New Zealand as Requiring Authority) Order 1992 and The Resource Management (Approval of Transit New Zealand as Requiring Authority) Notice 1994 (as published in the New Zealand Gazette, 3 March 1994, No. 20, page 978).

3. Approval as a requiring authority—The NZ Transport Agency is approved as a requiring authority under section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991 for the purpose of constructing or operating (or proposing to construct or operate) and maintaining cycleways and shared paths in New Zealand pursuant to the Government Roading Powers Act 1989 and the Land Transport Management Act 2003.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of November 2015.

Hon Dr NICK SMITH, Minister for the Environment.