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RMA reforms what's on the horizon for 2013?

Bell Gully
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New Zealand
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May 13 2013

The Government has been busy in the RMA space, recently releasing two discussion documents. "Improving our resource management system" proposes a

Further reforms to tax treatment of land-related lease payments

Bell Gully
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New Zealand
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May 10 2013

The Inland Revenue has proposed further reforms to the tax treatment of payments relating to leases and other interests in land. The reforms were

OIO releases update on counterfactual analysis for "benefit to New Zealand" test

Bell Gully
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New Zealand
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February 7 2013

The Overseas Investment Office has developed an update for applicants about the counterfactual analysis required for the "benefit to New Zealand

Taxation of lease inducement and surrender arrangements draft legislation before parliament

Bell Gully
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New Zealand
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January 31 2013

In August and September last year we described changes proposed by the Inland Revenue to the taxation of lease inducement and surrender arrangements

Clarity on contamination standard sought through declaratory proceedings the NES in its first year

Bell Gully
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New Zealand
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November 29 2012

On 24 November 2012 Hastings District Council issued a public notice that it had filed an application for declarations with the Environment Court relating to the application of the National Environmental Standard for Assessing and Managing Contaminants in Soil to Protect Human Health

A new class of leaky building litigants?

Bell Gully
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New Zealand
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November 9 2012

In a landmark Supreme Court decision last month, the Court held that a Council's duty of care under the Building Act 1991 extends to non-residential or commercial buildings (Body Corporate No 207624 & Ors v North Shore City Council 2012 NZSC 83 (11 October 2012) (Spencer on Byron

National War Memorial Park (Pukeahu) Empowering Act 2012

Bell Gully
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New Zealand
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November 1 2012

The National War Memorial Park (Pukeahu) Empowering Act 2012 (the Act) grants the necessary statutory authorisations and property rights to the Ministry for Culture and Heritage and the New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) to enable the completion of the National War Memorial Park in Wellington by April 2015, the centenary of the commencement of the Gallipoli landings during the First World War

Court of Appeal finds that land can be compulsorily acquired when 'indirectly' required under the Public Works Act 1981

Bell Gully
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New Zealand
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November 1 2012

A recent decision of the Court of Appeal Minister for Land Information v Ann Mary Seaton 2012 NZCA 234, has given a clear interpretation to what has been a troubling inconsistency in the definitions of 'Government Work' and 'Public Work' in the Public Works Act 1981 (Act

Earthquake prone buildings and the Health and Safety in Employment Act

Bell Gully
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New Zealand
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October 25 2012

The Christchurch earthquakes and structural failure of the PGC, Forsyth Barr, CTV and Hotel Grand Chancellor buildings has recently drawn attention to the obligations imposed by the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992 (HSE Act) in relation to earthquake-prone buildings

What is a security and when does a sale of land require a prospectus? The Supreme Court reverses previous thinking

Bell Gully
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New Zealand
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August 21 2012

Recently the Supreme Court issued a significant decision on the scope of investment products which fall within the Securities Act 1978 (reversing the findings of the High Court and Court of Appeal

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