[2021] NZEnvC 164 Otago Regional Council [pdf, 4 MB]
...proposition that Otago’s Regional Policy Statement and Regional Plan: Water for Otago, do not give effect to the NPS-FM 2020 or NPS-UD 2020, and only give partial effect to NPS-REG 2011. This omission means the Regional Council cannot claim that through its planning instruments it is necessarily giving effect to the purpose and principles of the Act. National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 [27] Gazetted after PC7 was notified, NPS-FM 2020 is a detailed statemen...