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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 local purpose reserves for the purpose of providing and retaining areas for such local purpose or purposes as are specified in any classification of the reserve.
(2) It is hereby further declared that, having regard to the specific local purpose for which the reserve has been classified, every local purpose reserve shall be so administered and maintained under the appropriate provisions of this Act that—
(a) Where scenic, historic, archaeological, biological, or natural features are present on the reserve, those features shall be managed and protected to the extent compatible with the principal or primary purpose of the reserve:
Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall authorise the doing of anything with respect to fauna that would contravene any provision of the Wildlife Act 1953 or any regulations or Proclamation or notification under that Act, or the doing of anything with respect to archaeological features in any reserve that would contravene any provision of the Historic Places Act 1993:
Provided also that nothing in this paragraph shall authorise the doing of anything with respect to any esplanade reserve created under section 167 of the Land Act 1948, or section 190(3) or Part 25 of the Municipal Corporations Act 1954 or Part 2 of the Counties Amendment Act 1961 and existing at the commencement of this Act, or any local purpose reserve for esplanade purposes created under the said Part 25 or Part 2 or under Part 20 of the Local Government Amendment Act 1978 or under Part 10 of the Resource Management Act 1991 after the commencement of this Act, that would impede the right of the public freely to pass and repass over the reserve on foot, unless the administering body determines that access should be prohibited or restricted to preserve the stability of the land or the biological values of the reserve:
(b) 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.
(3) Where a local purpose reserve is vested in a local authority or where the administering body is a local authority, it may from time to time, by public notice, prohibit access to the whole or any specified part of the reserve, and in that case no person shall enter the reserve or, as the case may be, that part, except under the authority of a permit issued by the local authority.
(4) Where a local purpose reserve is not vested in a local authority and a local authority has not been appointed to control and manage it, the Minister may from time to time, by public notice, prohibit access to the whole or any specified part of the reserve, and in that case no person shall enter the reserve or, as the case may be, that part, except under authority of a permit issued by the Minister.
Subsection (1) was substituted, as from 1 January 1980, by section 6(1) Reserves Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 63).
Subsection (2) was amended, as from 1 January 1980, by section 6(2) Reserves Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 63) by substituting the words “specific local purpose for which the reserve has been classified”
for the words “the general purposes specified in subsection (1) of this section”
. It would appear the word “the”
at the beginning of the omission was omitted in error.
In the first 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).
The second proviso to subsection (2)(a) was substituted, as from 1 January 1980, by section 7 Reserves Amendment Act 1979 (1979 No 63).
The second proviso to subsection (2)(a) was substituted, as from 1 October 1991, by section 362 Resource Management Act 1991 (1991 No 69) by inserting the words “or under Part 10 of the Resource Management Act 1991”
.