2.5 Provision of summaries or notices of certain applications to relevant trustees Each relevant consent authority must, for a period of 20 years starting on the effective date, provide the following to the relevant trustees for each resource consent application for an activity within, adjacent to, or directly affecting the ‘statutory area’: (a) if the application is received by the consent authority, a summary of the application; or (b) if notice of the application is served on the consent authority under section 145(10) of the Resource Management Act 1991, a copy of the notice. The information provided in a summary of an application must be the same as would be given to an affected person by limited notification under section 95B of the Resource Management Act 1991, or as may be agreed between the relevant trustees and the relevant consent authority. A summary of an application must be provided: (a) as soon as is reasonably practicable after the consent authority receives the application; but (b) before the consent authority decides under section 95 of the Resource Management Act 1991 whether to notify the application. A copy of a notice of an application must be provided no later than 10 working days after the day on which the consent authority receives the notice. This does not affect a relevant consent authority's obligation, — (a) under section 95 of the Resource Management Act 1991, to decide whether to notify an application, and to notify the application if it decides to do so; or (b) under section 95E of that Act, to decide whether the relevant trustees are affected persons in relation to an activity. 2.6 Use of Statutory Acknowledgement The relevant trustees and any member of the relevant iwi may, as evidence of the iwi's association with the ‘statutory area’, cite the Statutory Acknowledgement that relates to that area in submissions to, and in proceedings before, a relevant consent authority, the Environmental Protection Authority or a board of inquiry under Part 6AA of the Resource Management Act 1991, the Environment Court, or the Historic Places Trust concerning activities within, adjacent to, or directly affecting the ‘statutory area’. The content of a statement of association or statement of coastal values is not, by virtue of the Statutory Acknowledgement, binding as fact on (a) relevant consent authorities: (b) the Environmental Protection Authority or a board of inquiry under Part 6AA of the Resource Management Act 1991: (c) the Environment Court: (d) the Historic Places Trust: (e) parties to proceedings before those bodies: (f) any other person who is entitled to participate in those proceedings. However, the decision maker may take the Statutory Acknowledgement into account. To avoid doubt, — (a) neither the relevant trustees nor members of a relevant iwi are precluded from stating that the iwi has an association with the ‘statutory area’ that is not described in the Statutory Acknowledgement; and (b) the content and existence of the Statutory Acknowledgement do not limit any statement made. Te Tau Ihu Statutory Acknowledgements Page 6 of 163