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1. Abortion Legislation Bill (Cabinet Papers) [pdf, 1.9 MB]

   ...registration, and scope of practice. Where a prescription medicine is supplied, the requirements under the Medicines Act 1981 would apply. 53. The Bill would ensure that no person could perform abortion services unless they are a health practitioner who is permitted to do so by their scope of practice. Considerations 54. Removing legislative restrictions would better enable scopes of practice to change as health care technology, training, and best practice advances. 55. The Health Pr...

2. [2011] NZCA 564 CA780/2009 Parker v Silver Fern Farms Ltd Anor [pdf, 177 KB]

   ...Parker’s challenge to the Authority’s decision had “merit”. 12 His Honour said: [26] Mr Parker has a substantial arguable case that the employer’s policy, incorporated as part of the collective agreement to which he was subject, did not permit the employer to demand lawfully that he undergo a drug test as a condition of returning to work. Further, Mr Parker’s case is that there was a genuine dispute between the parties as to the interpretation and operation of the...

3. [2019] NZEnvC 152 Whangarei District Council v CPE Trustee Limited [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...the extinct volcano known as Mt Hurupaki, at Kama. [3] If the Quarry has existing use rights, the Council seeks answers to the following three questions: a) What is the extent to which quarrying can take place on the property? b) Is quarrying permitted into those parts of the property which have been identified as outstanding natural landscape (ONL) or outstanding natural feature (ONF); and c) Do any particular rules in the District Plan regulate the quarry? 3 [5] Mr L E S...

4. Proactive release – Ombudsmen (Protection of Name) Amendment Bill [pdf, 2.5 MB]

   ...Section 28A of the Ombudsmen Act 1975 3. Section 28A of the Ombudsmen Act 1975 provides that no one may use the name ‘ombudsman’ in connection with any business or the provision of any service, or hold themselves out to be an ombudsman, unless permitted by statute or with the permission of the Chief Ombudsman. Failure to comply is an offence carrying a fine of up to $1,000. 4. There are no statutes that permit the use of the name ‘ombudsman’. In 1992, then Chief Ombudsman, Sir John R...

5. [2020] NZEnvC 166 Lindis Catchment Group Incorporated v Otago Regional Council.pdf [pdf, 11 MB]

   ...OTAUTAHI Court: Hearing: Memoranda lodged by: IN THE MATTER AND BETWEEN AND Decision No. [2020] NZEnvC 166 of the Resource Management Act 1991 of an application under section 87G for a suite of resource consents to replace water permits to take water from the Lindis River that expire in 2021 LINDIS CATCHMENT GROUP INCORPORATED (ENV-2018-CHC-155) Applicant OTAGO REGIONAL COUNCIL Respondent Environment Judge J R Jackson Environment Commissioner KA Edmonds En...

6. [2024] NZEnvC 189 Gisborne District Council v China Forestry Group New Zealand Company [pdf, 4.3 MB]

   ...properties, infrastructure and ecosystems. These symptoms of failure, weaponised by cyclonic winds and weather bombs, have created an emergency and require urgent clean-up action. [8] It also found that:3 … the forest industry has lost its social licence in Tairāwhiti due to a culture of poor practices – facilitated by GDC’s capitulation to the permissiveness of the regulatory regime – and its under-resourced monitoring and compliance. Together, these factors have caused e...

7. [2024] NZEnvC 238 Coast Road Resilience Group Inc v West Coast Regional Council [pdf, 3.9 MB]

   .................................................................................................... 2522 24.0 Water Management Plan ................................................................................................................. 2522 Conditions to Apply to WCRC Discharge Permit ..................................................................................... 2724 25.0 Method of Discharge during mining activity ..............................................................

8. [2018] NZEnvC 227 Taranaki Energy Watch Incorporated v South Taranaki District Council [pdf, 12 MB]

   ...mitigated. [6] The contaminants discharged to air from a petroleum exploration and production facility (topic (b)) may cause chronic or acute health effects. Contaminants cannot be discharged to air without the prior authorisation of a discharge permit (s 15(2) RMA). For reasons that we will give, the court is not in a position to make any findings of fact or opinion on this topic, until it receives confirmation from the Regional Council that the Regional Air Quality Plan ("Air...

9. [2018] NZEnvC 042 The Architectural Centre v Wellington City Council [pdf, 5.4 MB]

   ...including Victoria House hall of residence, multi-unit developments and a number of detached dwellings. Proximity of the site to dwellings necessitates careful consideration of residential amenity across the boundary and is reflected in carefully set permitted activity standards This site is below the established part of the Kelburn campus and currently does not provide for pedestrian access up to that. In order to provide for reasonable connectivity through what is a very long urban b...

10. 29.-Evidence-of-Ms-Ainsley-McLeod-Conditions.pdf [pdf, 563 KB]

    ...of the RMA and Regulation 45 of the NES-F (discretionary activity) for vegetation clearance, earthworks and land disturbance within or near natural wetlands for the purpose of constructing specified infrastructure; Page 8 (b) water permits (discretionary activity) are sought pursuant to sections 14 and 15 of the RMA and Regulation 45 of the NES-F the taking, use, damming, diversion, or discharge of water within or near natural wetlands for the purposes of constructing sp...