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1. Directory of Official Information G-I [pdf, 903 KB]

   ...last updated on 28 June 2022 Te Pū Ao Governing statutes Crown Research Institutes Act 1992; Companies Act 1993. Functions and responsibilities GNS Science, Te Pū Ao, is a Crown-owned science company that focuses on geological resources, environmental and industrial isotopes, and geological hazards. It applies this knowledge and understanding to deliver a cleaner, safer, and more prosperous New Zealand. GNS Science focuses on natural processes occurring in the earth’s crus...

2. ENVC Hearing 6Oct14 WML evidence chief John Leman [pdf, 4.3 MB]

   ...attenuators are not considered a viable solution with wave periods significantly above 4 seconds. 81. A panel breakwater or rock breakwater therefore needs to be considered. Either of these solutions, if acceptable from a planning, aesthetic and environmental perspective, are satisfactory in terms of being able to achieve the necessary marina wind/wave climate. C(v) Breakwater Protection Solutions 82. As discussed above and within the Cardno report, the main exposure fo...

3. [2021] NZACC 29 - Van Essen v ACC (9 February 2021) [pdf, 196 KB]

   ...preferred by the majority of occupational physicians. In my opinion any contribution from work to the development of Mrs Van Essen’s lumbar spinal disease is likely to have been modest in comparison to the effects of genetics and early life environmental factors. Her work in a number of occupations may have rendered the changes symptomatic or even hastened them to some degree, but if so, I would consider inborn and pre-work influences still to be the major and predominant (i.e....

4. [2021] NZEnvC 142 Waimakariri District Council [pdf, 314 KB]

   ...development which is not controlled 14 Re Thames-Coromandel District Council [2013] NZEnvC 292, [2015] NZRMA 315 at [10]. 15 With reference to: re Thames-Coromandel District Council [2013] NZEnvC 292; re Palmerston North City Council [2015] NZEnvC 27; Environmental Defence Society Inc v Mackenzie District Council [2016] NZEnvC 253; re Dunedin City Council [2015] NZEnvC 165. 16 Status of this activity is not noted. 8 or permitted (respectively), is non-complying.17 [19] The Co...

5. Appendix 7 - Worked examples - other examples [pdf, 2.1 MB]

   ...whether these were filled or not, and what exceedances are present and how these were dealt with. 14. The abstraction records for each scenario were provided by the ORC. Landpro has access to the ORC’s Hilltop Database where water meter and other environmental data is currently stored, and the records provided by the ORC were evaluated for consistency with the raw record viewed in Hilltop. 15. The data analysis results contained in Appendix B were processed using excel software. Fo...

6. [2023] NZEnvC 162 Allison v Clutha District Council [pdf, 2.7 MB]

   ...days of completion of the installation of the stormwater mitigation works set out in Condition 2(d) of this consent. 14. The SMOMP must set out how the stormwater management and treatment system is to be operated and maintained to ensure adverse environmental effects from stormwater are minimised. The plan must include, but not be limited to: (a) A programme for regular maintenance and inspection of the stormwater management system; 7 (b) A programme for the collection...

7. 20240924-Marine-and-Coastal-Area-Takutai-Moana-Customary-Marine-Title-Amendment-Bill.pdf [pdf, 372 KB]

   ...Council [2000] UKPC 43, [2002] 2 NZLR 577 at [21]; Sustainable Matatā v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [2015] NZEnvC 90 at [209]-[211]; Western Bay of Plenty District Council v Bay of Plenty Regional Council [2017] NZEnvC 147 at [147]-[150]; Tauranga Environmental Protection Society Inc v Tauranga City Council [2021] NZRMA 492 (HC) at [65] and [66]. 57 Resource Management Act 1991, ss 64 and Sch 1. 58 Resource Management Act 1991, ss 57, 58(1)(b) and 58(1)(c). Policy 2 within the curre...

8. West v Accident Compensation Corporation (Vocational independence) [2024] NZACC 138 [pdf, 265 KB]

   ...West scored in the average ranges across most of the cognitive functioning domains. Ms Beharry suggested that ongoing cognitive symptoms were likely related to factors such as vision, headache, depressive features, and injury-related beliefs or environmental stresses, rather than head injury. [22] On 20 August 2020, Dr Paul Timmings, Neurologist, confirmed post- concussion symptoms with a cervicogenic headache, and prescribed medication. He encouraged Ms West to continue with the...

9. [2024] NZEnvC 287 Port Taranaki Limited v New Plymouth District Council [pdf, 1.1 MB]

   ...The amendments reflect the different uses and level of modification in different parts of the port. This clarification achieves the Port Zone objective of providing for the ‘operational and functional needs of the port, while ensuring the adverse environmental effects of activities undertaken at the Port are avoided, remedied or mitigated’. In addition, it achieves the objective for the coastal environment of ‘recognising and preserving the natural character, landscape, historic, c...

10. Youth-Justice-Indicators-Counting-Rules-and-Limitations-December-2024_v1.0.pdf [pdf, 252 KB]

    ...advantage; obtain by deception Illicit drug offences Drugs Possess cannabis or drug-related utensils; using cannabis Prohibited and regulated weapons and explosives offences Weapons Possess offensive weapon or knife Property damage and environmental pollution Property damage Wilful damage including graffiti-related offences; unlawfully interfere with motor vehicles; intentional damage; arson Public order offences Public order Wilful trespass; disorderly behaviour; unlaw...