Part 6: Environmental outcomes reports Setting environmental outcomes Section 152: Power to specify environmental outcomes Background
This provision allows the appropriate authority to make regulations to set ‘specified environmental outcomes’, against which relevant consents and relevant plans will be assessed. The regulations that set outcomes will be subject to public consultation and the affirmative parliamentary procedure and must uphold the non-regression provisions in this Part. In setting outcomes, the appropriate authority must have regard to the appropriate environmental improvement plan, policy strategy or national natural resources policy, including the legally binding long-term targets and interim targets that are set under them.