RMA to be relaxed for farm recovery after floods – but court sentences are being hardened in a crackdown on criminals
On the one hand, the government can expect to win kudos for suspending the law – or one bit of it. On the other, it can expect to get plenty of support for hardening its law-and-order credentials.
The law is being over-ridden by an Order in Council intended to enable severe weather recovery works to continue in the Hawke’s Bay.
