7 Oct 2005
SPRINGS PROMOTIONS LIMITED V SPRINGS STADIUM RESIDENTS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED AND ANOR HC AK CIV-2005-485-85
- Citation
- openlaw-a0fd4586_c182_4efc_83c0_671656804962.pdf
- Court
- High Court
The RMA (ss9 and 10) constitutes a comprehensive statutory code for existing use rights; such rights may only be lost by discontinuance under s10(2) or by changes in effects beyond those permitted under s10(1)(a)(ii); private law doctrines like waiver or estoppel do not generally extinguish existing use rights except in exceptional circumstances; existing use rights are a lawful authority equivalent to a resource consent.