Section 322 — Resource Management Act 1991: Scope of abatement notice

322 Scope of abatement notice (1) An abatement notice may be served on any person by an enforcement officer— (a) Requiring that person to cease, or prohibiting that person from commencing, anything done or to be done by or on behalf of that person that, in the opinion of the enforcement officer,— (i) Contravenes or is likely to contravene this Act, any regulations, a rule in a plan, or a resource consent; or (ii) Is or is likely to be noxious, dangerous, offensive, or objectionable to such an extent that it has or is likely to have an adverse effect on the environment: (b) Requiring that person to do something that, in the opinion of the enforcement officer, is necessary to ensure compliance by or on behalf of that person with this Act, any regulations, a rule in a plan or a proposed plan, or a resource consent, and also necessary to avoid, remedy, or mitigate any actual or likely adverse effect on the environment— (i) Caused by or on behalf of the person; or (ii) Relating to any land of which the person is the owner or occupier: (c) Requiring that person, being— (i) An occupier of any land; or (ii) A person carrying out any activity in, on, under, or over a water body or the water within the coastal marine area,— who is contravening section 16 (which relates to unreasonable noise) to adopt the best practicable option of ensuring that the emission of noise from that land or water does not exceed a reasonable level. (2) Where any person is under a duty not to contravene a rule in a proposed plan under sections 9 , 12(3) , 14(2) , or 15(2) , an abatement notice may be issued to require a person— (a) To cease, or prohibit that person from commencing, anything done or to be done by or on behalf of that person that, in the opinion of the enforcement officer, contravenes or is likely to contravene a rule in a proposed plan; or (b) To do something that, in the opinion of the enforcement officer, is necessary in order to ensure compliance by or on behalf of that person with a rule in a proposed plan. (3) An abatement notice may be made subject to such conditions as the enforcement officer serving it thinks fit. (4) An abatement notice shall not be served unless the enforcement officer has reasonable grounds for believing that any of the circumstances in subsection (1) or subsection (2) exist. Subsection (1)(b) was substituted, as from 7 July 1993, by section 146(1) Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65). Subsection (1)(c)(ii) was amended, as from 7 July 1993, by section 146(2) Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65) by substituting the word “ within ” for the word “ covering ” .