Section 390D — Resource Management Act 1991: Timing for renewals

390D Timing for renewals (1) Where the holder of a permission, licence, permit, or order referred to in either section 389(1) or section 389(2) (in this section called an approval ), before the expiry of the approval and before the 1st day of January 1992, made an application for a new approval or resource consent for the same activity, that application shall be deemed to have been made at least 6 months before the expiry of the original approval; and the provisions of section 124 shall apply accordingly. (2) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, for the purposes of subsection (1) the date of application shall be the date on which the application was lodged with the then appropriate consent authority, and not the date on which it was received by the relevant consent authority under this Act. Section 390D was inserted, as from 7 July 1993, by section 181 Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).