Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975

8G Public notice

• (1) Where an application is made under section 8D, the applicant shall, in addition to complying with the directions given under section 8F(4), give, in accordance with the directions of the Tribunal, public notice of the application.

  (2) The public notice shall be published both—

  • (a) in the Gazette; and

  • (b) in such newspapers circulating in the district in which the land or interest in land is situated as the Tribunal directs.

  (3) The public notice shall—

  • (a) describe the land or interest in land and its location; and

  • (b) state that an application has been made under section 8D in respect of the land or interest in land; and

  • (c) indicate that—

    • (i) the land or interest in land has been or was transferred to a State enterprise under section 23 of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 or vested in a State enterprise by a notice in the Gazette under section 24 of that Act or by an Order in Council made under section 28 of that Act; or

    • (ii) the land or interest in land has been or was transferred to an institution within the meaning of section 159 of the Education Act 1989 under section 207 of that Act or vested in such an institution by an Order in Council made under section 215 of that Act—

    as the case may be.

  • (d) invite any Maori who considers that he or she, or any group of Maori of which he or she is a member, has grounds for a claim under section 6 in relation to the land or interest in land, to submit that claim to the Tribunal before a date specified in the notice (which date shall be not less than 90 days after the first or only publication of the notice in the Gazette ); and

  • (e) describe briefly any claims already submitted under section 6 in respect of the land or interest in land; and

  • (f) where no claim has been submitted under section 6 in respect of the land or interest in land, state that if no claim in relation to the land or interest in land is submitted to the Tribunal under section 6 before the date specified in the notice, the Tribunal may recommend that the land or interest in land be no longer liable to resumption under section 27B of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 or section 212 of the Education Act 1989; and

  • (g) contain such other information as the Tribunal directs.

  Section 8G: inserted (with effect on 9 December 1987), on 30 June 1988, by section 4 of the Treaty of Waitangi (State Enterprises) Act 1988 (1988 No 105).

  Section 8G(3)(c): replaced, on 10 April 1992, by section 12(3) of the State-Owned Enterprises Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 27).

  Section 8G(3)(f): amended, on 23 July 1990, pursuant to section 50(1) of the Education Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 60).