Acknowledgements

The New Zealand Ministry for the Environment would like to thank Local Government New Zealand for providing the rights to, and base material from, the original Resource Management Enforcement Manual, on which this guidance material is based.

The original Resource Management Enforcement Manual was produced by Local Government New Zealand and written by Karenza de Silva. Other people involved in the document were:

• Helen Atkins (Russell McVeagh), David Rolfe (Porirua City Council ), Colin Dall (Northland Regional Council ), Claire McDonald (Queenstown-Lakes District Council ), Graeme Ridley (Auckland Regional Council ) and Geraldine Morgan (Ministry for the Environment), who peer-reviewed the original Manual
• Malcolm Hunt (Malcolm Hunt & Associates, Wellington ), who provided input on the Noise chapter
• Kim Nankivell (Waitakere City Council ) for the flowchart on page 16/3 and helpful advice on infringement offences; Alan Woolston and Joy Hamer (Training and Evaluation Services Ltd) for helpful advice on infringement offences; and Carolyn Brown (Tompkins Wake, Lawyers, Hamilton) for research on infringement offences.

The 2005 update of the original manual was undertaken by:

• Mark Christensen
• Michael Garbett
• Philippa Jones

(all of Anderson Lloyd Caudwell).