Government quietly ushers in Resource Management Regulation amendments

Several  key changes to the Resource Management Amendment Regulations 2017 came into force last Thursday.Amendments have been made to the following clauses:

3A	Transitional, savings, and related provisions
35	Fees of court
35A	Power to waive fees
35B	Payment of fee may be postponed pending determination of application for waiver or review
35C	Recovery of postponed fee
35D	Power to refund fees
36A	Prepayment of scheduling fees and estimated hearing fees
36B	Failure to prepay the scheduling fees or estimated hearing fees
36C	Payment of balance of hearing fees if hearing exceeds estimated hearing time
36D	Refund of prepaid hearing fees if hearing shorter than estimated hearing time
36E	Refund of prepaid hearing fees if proceeding settled, discontinued, abandoned, or determined before hearing date

To view the full amendments, please click here or visit:http://legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/2017/0231/latest/DLM7399125.html