New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) The Minister may authorise any officer or employee of the Department or any other person to hunt or kill any wild animal by day or night on administered by the Department of Conservation under the Conservation Act 1987 or any other enactment, or any land leased to or managed by the Minister; and nothing in section 48 of the Arms Act 1983, or any other enactment except section 47 of the said Act, shall prevent any officer, employee, or person so authorised from hunting or killing any wild animal on any forest road not effectively open at the time for use by the public.
(2) Every person commits an offence against this Act who wilfully obstructs or hinders or resists the Director-General or any authorised officer or employee of the Department in the exercise of any of the powers conferred by this section.
Compare: 1956 No 6 s 10A; 1967 No 143 s 4
Subsection (1) was amended, as from 12 October 1982, by section 6 Wild Animal Control Amendment Act 1982 (1982 No 26) by omitting the words “authorised by him”
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Subsection (1) was further amended, as from 1 April 1987, by section 11(1) State-Owned Enterprises Amendment Act 1987 (1987 No 117) by substituting the words “administered by the Department of Conservation under the Conservation Act 1987 or any other enactment”
for the words “State forest land”
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The Arms Act 1958 was repealed, as from 1 June 1984, by section 77 Arms Act 1983 (1983 No 44). The references in subsection (1) to sections 48 and 47 of the Arms Act 1983 replaced, as from 1 June 1984, references to “subsection (2B) of section 16 of the Arms Act 1958, and subsections (2) and (2A) of the said section 16”
, respectively.
The word “Department”
in this section was substituted, as from 1 April 1987, for the words “Forest Service”
pursuant to section 65(1) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65). See also section 2(2) Forests Act 1949 (1949 No 19) as to an earlier amendment of this term.