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 Space Operations New Zealand Limited as a Requiring Authority) Notice 2024.
2. This notice shall come into force on the 28th day after the date of its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.

2. Approval as a requiring authority

Space Operations New Zealand Limited is approved as a requiring authority under section 167 of the Resource Management Act 1991 for its network utility operation of constructing, upgrading, maintaining and operating the Awarua Satellite Ground Station based in Awarua, Southland to the extent that this station undertakes radiocommunication activities as defined in section 2(1) of the Radiocommunications Act 1989. For avoidance of doubt, this includes structures, works, and activities ancillary to transmission or reception of signs, signals, writing, images, sounds or intelligence of any nature by radio waves.

Dated at Wellington this 10th day of March 2025.

Hon PENNY SIMMONDS, Minister for the Environment.