New Zealand Legislation: Acts

7 Constitution of other national parks and addition of land to national parks

• (1) Subject to subsections (2) to (6) of this section, the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister,—

  • (a) Declare that any land of the Crown described in the order, being—

    • (i) Any conservation area; or

    • (ii) [Repealed]

    • (iii) Any land subject to the Tourist and Health Resorts Control Act 1908 or the Tourist Hotel Corporation Act 1974; or

    • (iv) Any reserve vested in Her Majesty subject to the Reserves Act 1977; or

    • (v) Any land acquired by the Crown for national park purposes,—

    shall be a national park subject to this Act:

  • (b) Add any such land to any park:

  • (c) Declare that any foreshore described in the order shall be a national park or be added to any park:

  • (d) Assign a name to any new national park or change the name of any existing national park.

  (2) The Minister shall not make any recommendation under subsection (1) of this section except on the recommendation of the Authority made after consultation with the appropriate Board (if any).

  (2A) Before making a recommendation under subsection (1)(d), the Minister must refer the proposed name to the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa under section 27(2) or 30 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008, as the case may be.

  (3) [Repealed]

  (4) No land subject to the Tourist and Health Resorts Control Act 1908 or the Tourist Hotel Corporation Act 1974 shall be declared to be a park or to be added to any park, except on the joint recommendation of the Minister and the Minister of Tourism.

  (5) [Repealed]

  (6) No foreshore shall be declared to be a park or to be added to any park, except on the joint recommendation of the Minister and the Minister of Transport, and, where the foreshore is under the control of a regional council under the Resource Management Act 1991, except with the consent of that body.

  Compare: 1952 No 54 s 10(1); 1974 No 69 s 5(1)

  Subsection (1)(a)(i) was substituted, and subsection (1)(a)(ii) was repealed, as from 1 April 1987, by section 65(1) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65).

  Section 7(2A): inserted, on 1 November 2008, by section 38 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 (2008 No 30).

  Subsection (3) was repealed, as from 1 April 1987, by section 65(1) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65).

  Subsection (5) was repealed, as from 1 October 1991, by section 362 Resource Management Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 69).

  Subsection (6) was substituted, as from 1 October 1991, by section 362 Resource Management Amendment Act 1991 (1991 No 69).