COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Bill [pdf, 133 KB]
...urgently promote New Zealand’s economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic by providing employment opportunities and certainty for ongoing investment while applying appropriate environmental safeguards. The Bill seeks to achieve this by expediting resource consenting and designation processes for infrastructure and development projects. The Bill also enables specific work on existing infrastructure to occur without the need for a resource consent. 4. We have concluded that the Bill a...