Section 432 — Resource Management Act 1991: Obligation to prepare regional policy statements and coastal plans within 2 years

432 Obligation to prepare regional policy statements and coastal plans within 2 years (1) Every regional council shall, in accordance with this Act and within 2 years after the date of commencement of this Act, publicly notify a proposed regional policy statement for its region. (1A) Every regional council shall, in accordance with this Act, publicly notify, by the 1st day of July 1994, a proposed regional coastal plan or plans for its region. (2) A regional council that complies with subsection (1) shall not be in breach of section 60 or section 64 , as the case may be, during the period from the date of commencement of this Act until the policy statement or plan becomes operative. Subsection (1) was substituted, as from 7 July 1993, and subsection (1A) inserted, as from 7 July 1993, by section 208 Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).