New Zealand Legislation: Acts

5 Indigenous plants and animals to be preserved

• (1) No person shall, without the prior written consent of the Minister, cut, destroy, or take, or purport to authorise any person to cut, destroy, or take, any plant or part of a plant that is indigenous to New Zealand and growing in a national park.

  (2) No person shall, without the prior written consent of the Minister, disturb, trap, take, hunt, or kill, or purport to authorise any person to disturb, trap, take, hunt, or kill any animal that is indigenous to New Zealand and found within a national park.

  (3) The Minister shall not give his consent under subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section unless the act consented to is consistent with the management plan for the park.

  Compare: 1952 No 54 s 29