New Zealand Legislation: Acts

13 Governor-General may declare reserve to be National reserve

• (1) In order to protect values of national or international importance the Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, declare that any reserve that has been classified pursuant to section 16 of this Act shall be a National reserve.

  (2) Where any reserve has been declared to be a National reserve under subsection (1) of this section, neither that declaration nor the classification of that reserve under section 16 of this Act shall be changed except by Act of Parliament.

  (3) Before the Minister recommends to the Governor-General that an Order in Council be made under subsection (1) of this section,—

  • (a) The Minister shall give public notice of the proposal, in accordance with section 119 of this Act, stating that a plan of the proposal is available for inspection at a place and at times specified in the notice, and calling upon persons or organisations interested to lodge with the administering body written objections to or submissions in support of or suggestions on the proposal before a specified date, being not less than 3 months after the date of publication of the notice. The Minister shall give full consideration, in accordance with section 120 of this Act, to all objections and submissions in relation to the proposal received pursuant to the said section 120; and

  • (b) The Minister shall give to the Minister of Energy not less than 3 months' notice of the proposal.

  (4) In any case where a reserve that the Minister considers should be declared a National reserve is one which another Minister of the Crown or the New Zealand Historic Places Trust has been appointed to control and manage, he shall obtain the consent of that other Minister or, as the case may be, of the Trust before making any recommendation to the Governor-General that an Order in Council be made under subsection (1) of this section.

  (5) When a reserve has been declared by Order in Council to be a National reserve the reserve shall—

  • (a) Retain its classification under section 16 of this Act; and

  • (b) Be administered—

    • (i) By the Commissioner; or

    • (ii) By a Reserves Board appointed by the Minister under section 30 of this Act; or

    • (iii) In such other manner as the Minister directs,—

  in order to provide for the application of management policies to protect the values of national or international significance and for the co-ordination of management with other National reserves.

  This section was substituted, as from 1 January 1980, by section 3(1) Reserves Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 63).

  Subsections (1), (2), and (5) were amended, as from 13 January 1981, by section 2 Reserves Amendment Act (No 2) 1980 (1980 No 139) by substituting the expression “section 16” for the expression “section 17”.