New Zealand Legislation: Acts

6 Existing national parks

• (1) The following national parks as they exist at the commencement of this Act are hereby declared to be national parks under and subject to the provisions of this Act:

  • (a) the Tongariro National Park:

  • (b) the Egmont National Park:

  • (c) the Arthur's Pass National Park:

  • (d) the Abel Tasman National Park:

  • (e) the Fiordland National Park:

  • (f) the Mount Cook National Park:

  • (g) the Urewera National Park:

  • (h) the Nelson Lakes National Park:

  • (i) the Westland National Park:

  • (j) the Mount Aspiring National Park.

  (2) The Arthur's Pass National Park named in subsection (1)(c) is the same national park as the Arthur Pass National Park existing immediately before the commencement of this Act.

  (3) By virtue of section 162 of the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998, the Mount Cook National Park is now called the Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park.

  (4) By virtue of Order in Council dated 3 April 2000 (Gazette 1 June 2000, p 1281), Urewera National Park is now called Te Urewera National Park.

  Compare: 1952 No 54 s 9; 1974 No 69 s 4

  Section 6(3): inserted, on 1 October 1998, by section 162(3) of the Ngāi Tahu Claims Settlement Act 1998 (1998 No 97).

  Section 6(4): inserted, on 27 September 2001, by section 3 of the National Parks Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 73).