5Minister must develop conversion criteria

5 Minister must develop conversion criteria

(1)  The Minister must issue criteria to be applied by the Secretary in making shack site determinations.

(2)  The criteria so issued may be referred to as conversion criteria.

(3)  In formulating the conversion criteria, the Minister –

(a) must have regard to the State Coastal Policy and the objectives of the Resource Management and Planning System set out in Schedule 1 to the Land Use Planning and Approvals Act 1993 ; and

(b) [Section 5 Subsection (3) amended by No. 27 of 2002, s. 5, Applied:15 Jan 1998] may –

(i) have regard to such other policies and to such enactments and other matters as the Minister thinks fit; and

(ii) seek and have regard to such advice as the Minister thinks fit.

(4)  [Section 5 Subsection (4) inserted by No. 27 of 2002, s. 5, Applied:15 Jan 1998] If the conversion criteria issued by the Minister have the same content as the model conversion criteria set out in Schedule 2A , the conversion criteria so issued are to be taken for all purposes as having been validly formulated under this section.

(5)  [Section 5 Subsection (5) inserted by No. 27 of 2002, s. 5, Applied:15 Jan 1998] For the purposes of subsection (4) , 2 documents may be taken to have the same content despite –

(a) the absence, from one document, of a heading, introduction or note appearing in the other document; or

(b) any variation between them in punctuation or spelling; or

(c) minor variations between them in style or layout.