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(1) Subject to this section, any local authority may by resolution declare any land vested in it to be a reserve within the meaning of this Act subject to any conditions specified in the resolution, to be held for any of the purposes specified in sections 17 to 23 of this Act.
(2) No such resolution shall be passed before the expiration of one month after notice of intention to pass the same and calling for objections thereto in writing has been published in one or more newspapers circulating in its district, and until it has considered all such objections received within that period:
Provided that such a notice of intention shall not be necessary where a district plan makes provision for the use of the land as a reserve or the land is designated as a proposed reserve under an operative district plan under the Resource Management Act 1991.
(3) A copy of the resolution shall be forwarded to the Commissioner for transmission to the Minister, together with all objections (if any) received as aforesaid and the comments of the local authority thereon.
(4) The Minister shall consider the resolution and such objections (if any) as have been received by the local authority and the comments of the local authority thereon, and shall then in his discretion either cause the resolution to be gazetted or refuse to do so.
(5) No resolution under this section shall have any force or effect until it is gazetted as aforesaid.
The proviso to subsection (2) was substituted, as from 1 October 1991, by section 362 Resource Management Act 1991 (1991 No 69).