Section 227 — Resource Management Act 1991: Cancellation of prior approvals

227 Cancellation of prior approvals (1) Where— (a) Before or after the date of commencement of this Act, a survey plan has been deposited under the Land Transfer Act 1952 or under any other authority or in the Deeds Register Office; and (b) A survey plan of the same land is deposited in accordance with section 224 ,— the approval given to the first-mentioned survey plan on or before the date of deposit of the second-mentioned survey plan shall, except as to conditions to which sections 221 , and 243 or the equivalent provisions of any former enactment apply,— (c) Be deemed to be cancelled; or (d) Where the land in the second-mentioned survey plan is part only of the land in the first-mentioned survey plan, be deemed to be cancelled so far as it relates to the land in the second-mentioned survey plan. (2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the deposit of a unit plan, or to a survey plan which gives effect to the grant of a lease to which section 218(1)(a)(iii) applies, or a cross lease or company lease. Subsection (1) was amended, as from 17 December 1997, by section 43 Resource Management Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 104) by omitting the expression “ 240, 241, ” . See section 78 of that Act as to the transitional provisions. Subsection (2) was inserted, as from 7 July 1993, by section 122 Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).