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Environment Court Prescribed Forms
These forms are prescribed by the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Regulations 2003. The fees were amended by the Resource Management (Forms, Fees, and Procedure) Amendment Regulations 2009 and came into effect on 7 May 2009.
Environment Court Filing Fees
The filing fee for each appeal/application type is listed with the appropriate section/form below. All fees are GST inclusive. If you pay your fee in cash at an Environment Court office, we will round the fee down to the nearest ten cents.
Waiver, Reduction and Postponement of Environment Court Fees
The Registrar (and Deputy Registrars) have the power to waive, reduce and/or postpone some Environment Court fees, upon application, in limited circumstances. The fees that might be waived, refunded or postponed are those prescribed in section 281A of the Resource Management Act 1991.
These fees can only be waived or reduced or postponed if either: you are unable to pay the fee; or the proceedings concern a matter of public interest and are unlikely to proceed if the fee was required.
Applicants for waiver should complete a Request for Waiver, Reduction or Postponement of Fees and forward the completed form to the appropriate registry office who will contact you once a decision has been made by the Registrar. (Word version available upon request from Registry).
| Clause 14(1) of First Schedule, Resource Management Act 1991 (also clauses 29(6) and (7), of First Schedule, Resource Management Act 1991) |
Notice of appeal against decision on proposed policy statement or plan Form 7 Filing Fee $511.11 |
| Clause 14(3) of First Schedule, Resource Management Act 1991 | Notice of appeal against decision of requiring authority or heritage protection authority on proposed plan Form 8 Filing Fee $511.11 |
| Clauses 27 of First Schedule, Resource Management Act 1991 | Notice of appeal against decision of territorial authority on whether to accept or reject plan change request Form 34 Fee $511.11 |
| Sections 120, 121, 127(3), 132(2), 136(4)(b), 137(5), 139(12) and 139A(9), Resource Management Act 1991 | Notice of appeal on decision on application concerning resource consent, transfer of water permit or discharge permit, or certificate of compliance Form 16 Filing Fee $511.11 |
| Section 234(4), Resource Management Act 1991 |
Notice of appeal on decision concerning esplanade strip Form 16 Filing Fee $56.22 |
| Sections 174, 181(2), 192(c) and 195A Resource Management Act 1991 | Notice of appeal against decision concerning requirement for designation or heritage order Form 22 Filing Fee $511.11 |
| Section 176A(5), Resource Management Act 1991 |
Appeal against requiring or heritage protection authority’s decision regarding Outline Plan Form 34 Filing Fee $511.11 |
| Sections 179 and 195, Resource Management Act 1991 |
Appeal against requiring or heritage protection authority’s decision on application to use land subject to a designation or heritage order Form 34 Filing Fee $511.11 |
| Sections 185 and 198, Resource Management Act 1991 | Application for order obliging requiring authority or heritage protection authority to take land Form 24 Filing Fee $56.22 |
| Section 274, Resource Management Act 1991 |
Notice of person's wish to be party to proceedings Form 33 s.274 Interested Party Notices and the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 The amendment came into effect 1 October 2009, with it came a substantial change to the time period for lodging an interested party notice pursuant to s.274 of the Resource Management Act. Where applications at Council level have been initiated prior to 1 October 2009, all those wishing to become a party have 30 working days from the date of lodgement of the appeal with the Environment Court in which to lodge their notice of interest. Where applications at Council level have been initiated post 1 October 2009, all those wishing to become a party have 15 working days from the end of the appeal period in which to lodge their notice of interest. |
| (General) |
Notice of appeal to Environment Court Form 34 Please refer to appropriate section for fee |
| Section 358, Resource Management Act 1991 | Appeal against a decision on an objection Form 34 Filing Fee $511.11 |
| Section 291, Resource Management Act 1991 | Notice of Motion (General) Form 36 Filing Fee $56.22 |
| Section 291(4), Resource Management Act 1991 | Notice of person's wish to be heard on notice of motion Form 37 No Filing Fee Required |
| Section 281, Resource Management Act 1991 | Application for waiver or directions Form 38 No Filing Fee Required |
| Section 278(1), Resource Management Act 1991 | Witness summons to Environment Court hearing Form 40 No Filing Fee Required |
| Section 311, Resource Management Act 1991 | Application for declaration Form 41 Filing Fee $56.22 |
| Sections 316 and 320, Resource Management Act 1991 | Application for enforcement order or interim enforcement order Form 43 Filing Fee $56.22 |
| Sections 320(5) and 321, Resource Management Act 1991 | Application to change or cancel enforcement order or interim enforcement order Form 46 Filing Fee $56.22 |
| Section 325(2), Resource Management Act 1991 | Notice of appeal against abatement notice Form 49 Filing Fee $56.22 |
| Section 325(3B), Resource Management Act 1991 | Application for stay of abatement notice Form 50 No Filing Fee required |
Standard Environment Court form of Consent Order - November 2006 [ PDF 12Kb ]
