New Zealand Legislation: Acts

8HH Public notice

• (1) Where an application is made under section 8HE of this Act, the applicant shall, in addition to complying with the directions given under section 8HG of this Act, 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 is situated as the Tribunal directs.

  (3) The public notice shall—

  • (a) Describe the land and its location; and

  • (b) State that an application has been made under section 8HE of this Act in respect of the land; and

  • (c) Indicate the land is Crown forest land that is subject to a Crown forestry licence; and

  • (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 of this Act in relation to the 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 of this Act in respect of the land; and

  • (f) Where no claim has been submitted under section 6 of this Act in respect of the land, state that if no claim in relation to the land is submitted to the Tribunal under that section before the date specified in the notice, the Tribunal may recommend that the land not be liable to be returned to Maori ownership and the effect of any such recommendation; and

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

  Sections 8A to 8I were inserted, as from 9 December 1987, by section 4 Treaty of Waitangi (State Enterprises) Act 1988 (1988 No 105).

  Sections 8HA to 8HI and the preceding heading were inserted, as from 25 October 1989, by section 40 Crown Forest Assets Act 1989 (1989 No 99).