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

Notice

1. Title and Commencement

(1) This notice may be cited as the Resource Management (Approval of New Zealand Transport Agency as a Requiring Authority) Notice 2023.

(2) This notice shall come into force on the fifth working 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, 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) and The Resource Management (Approval of NZ Transport Agency as a Requiring Authority) Notice 2015 (as published in the New Zealand Gazette, 19 November 2015, Issue No. 126, Notice No. 106).

3. Approval as a Requiring Authority

The New Zealand Transport Agency is hereby approved as a requiring authority, under section 167(3)(b) of the Resource Management Act 1991, for the purpose of undertaking a network utility operation consisting of constructing or operating (or proposing to construct or operate) (including maintaining, replacing, upgrading, improving, enhancing, expanding, realigning, and altering) rapid transit networks and projects and their ancillary structures, works and activities in New Zealand on a mode-neutral basis (either road or rail or both).

Dated this 10th day of September 2023.

Hon DAVID PARKER, Minister for the Environment.