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(1) It is hereby declared that the appropriate provisions of this Act shall have effect, in relation to reserves classified as historic reserves, for the purpose of protecting and preserving in perpetuity such places, objects, and natural features, and such things thereon or therein contained as are of historic, archaeological, cultural, educational, and other special interest.
(2) It is hereby further declared that, having regard to the general purposes specified in subsection (1) of this section, every historic reserve shall be so administered and maintained that—
(a) The structures, objects, and sites illustrate with integrity the history of New Zealand:
(b) The public shall have freedom of entry and access to the reserve, subject to the specific powers conferred on the administering body by sections 58 and 58A of this Act, to any bylaws under this Act applying to the reserve, and to such conditions and restrictions as the administering body considers to be necessary for the protection and general well-being of the reserve and for the protection and control of the public using it:
(c) Where scenic, archaeological, geological, biological, or other scientific features, or indigenous flora or fauna, or wildlife are present on the reserve, those features or that flora or fauna or wildlife shall be managed and protected to the extent compatible with the principal or primary purpose of the reserve:
(d) To the extent compatible with the principal or primary purpose of the reserve, its value as a soil, water, and forest conservation area shall be maintained:
(e) Except where the Minister otherwise determines, the indigenous flora and fauna and natural environment shall as far as possible be preserved:
Provided that nothing in paragraph (c) of this subsection shall authorise the doing of anything with respect to fauna or wildlife that would contravene any provision of the Wildlife Act 1953 or any regulations or Proclamation or notification under that Act, and nothing in this subsection shall authorise the doing of anything with respect to archaeological features in any reserve that would contravene any provision of the Historic Places Act 1993.
Subsection (2)(b) was amended, as from 1 January 1980, by section 19(2) Reserves Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 63) by substituting the expression “sections 58 and 58A”
for the expression “section 58”
.
In the proviso to subsection (2) the reference to the “Historic Places Act 1993”
has been substituted for a reference to the “Historic Places Act 1954”
which was consolidated by the Historic Places Act 1980. That Act was consolidated, as from 1 July 1993, by section 118(1) Historic Places Act 1993 (1993 No 38).