Submission on the Fast-track Approvals Bill 2024

RMLA made it’s submission this afternoon on the Fast-track Approvals Bill.

RMLA’ s main objective in making submissions on Government proposals is to ensure that a coherent and workable body of resource management and environmental law and practice is developed in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

As a result, it is not the RMLA’s practice to comment on matters of policy. RMLA’s preference is for long term, enduring reform with bipartisan support that targets the issues that have been comprehensively identified to date, in a sound and evidence-based way.

This submission focuses on what (if any) changes can or should be made to the proposal to ensure that the instrument being considered will (a) be consistent with the general framework of existing laws and policies and legally sound; (b) be practicable, effective and efficient; (c) assist in promoting best practice; and (d) produce high quality environmental outcomes.