Bylaws and regulations

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Bylaws help ensure that our community is safe, healthy and vibrant. Their purposes include:

Requiring activities to be licensed; to ensure that activities are carried out in a safe and responsible manner.
Informing the community about acceptable standards of behaviour in public places.
Promoting a nuisance free environment, i.e., through rules on keeping animals.
Ensuring that the public can safely use public land.

The Tasman District Council Consolidated Bylaw was made in accordance with the requirements of the Local Government Act 2002 and contains the following bylaws:

Bylaws are a useful way of dealing with particular local issues. They focus on activities that are significant enough to need enforcement options.

Bylaws enable us to acheive a number of things. We can:

Require activities to be licensed; to ensure that activities are carried out in a safe and responsible manner.
Inform the community about acceptable standards of behaviour in public places.
Promote a nuisance-free environment, i.e. through rules on keeping animals.
Ensure that the public can safely use public land.

This policy explains the purpose and principles to be applied in monitoring and enforcing rules and regulations in Tasman District.

It also provides insight into the range of enforcement tools available to Council and the processes we use to achieve desired outcomes.

Tasman District Council Enforcement Policy 2022.pdf (pdf 673 KB)

Consolidated bylaw

Rules help make sure our district is safe, healthy and vibrant. We use a collection of regulations to do this called the consolidated bylaw. It contains several chapters for different topics.

Dams Policy

Read our policy on dangerous dams, earthquake-prone dams and flood-prone dams and how we will deal with them in Tasman.

Dangerous, insanitary and affected buildings policy

Bylaws and regulations

Consolidated bylaw

Rules help make sure our district is safe, healthy and vibrant. We use a collection of regulations to do this called the consolidated bylaw. It contains several chapters for different topics.

Dams Policy

Read our policy on dangerous dams, earthquake-prone dams and flood-prone dams and how we will deal with them in Tasman.

Dangerous, insanitary and affected buildings policy

Our policy on identification, assessment, and actions to be taken to deal with dangerous, insanitary and affected buildings.

Dog control policy

The dog control policy sets out expected behaviour from owners and dogs.

Flying unmanned aircraft over council land

Policy on where you can and can't fly drones, model aircraft and other unmanned aircraft over Council land.

Freedom camping bylaw

Gambling venue policy

We have a policy to minimise harm to the community caused by gambling.

Golden Bay Easter Sunday Trading Policy

The policy was adopted in February 2022.

Local alcohol policy

Local approved psychoactive products policy

While there are currently no approved psychoactive products in New Zealand, this policy is active.

Navigation Safety Bylaw

Helping to keep everyone safe on our waters.