New Zealand Legislation: Acts

59 Interpretation

• In this Part of this Act and in Part 6 of this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—

  Claimant means any person claiming compensation under this Act

  Land Valuation Tribunal or Tribunal means a Land Valuation Tribunal established under the Land Valuation Proceedings Act 1948; and the expression Land Valuation Tribunal or Tribunal, when used in relation to any land transaction, means the particular Land Valuation Tribunal to which any application or matter arising under this Act and relating to that land or transaction has been made or referred

  Minister means the Minister of Lands

  Minister: inserted, as from 1 April 1988, by section 17(1) Public Works Amendment Act 1988 (1988 No 43).

  Notified, in relation to any land, means—

  • (a) Made the subject of a requirement by a Minister of the Crown, a local authority, or a network utility operator under section 168 of the Resource Management Act 1991, or by a heritage protection authority under section 189 of that Act, or by any such body or person under clause 4 of Part 1 of Schedule 1 to that Act or under the corresponding provisions of any former enactment; or

  • (b) Designated for a public work or a project or work, or made the subject of a heritage order, included in an operative or proposed district plan under the Resource Management Act 1991; or

  • (c) Made subject to a notice of intention to take, or to the powers conferred by a middle line notice, issued under this Act; or

  • (d) [Repealed]

  • (e) Made the subject of negotiations under section 17 of this Act or a notice under section 18(1) of this Act, in which case the date of notification shall be the date on which the negotiations commenced or the date of the service of the notice, as the case may be:

  Notified: paragraphs (a) and (b) of this definition were substituted, as from 1 October 1991, by section 362 Resource Management Act 1991 (1991 No 69).

  Notified: paragraph (d) of this definition was repealed, as from 1 July 2003, by section 262 Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84). See sections 273 to 314 of that Act as to the savings and transitional provisions.

  Notifying authority means any person or local authority who or which has the financial responsibility for any public work in respect of which any land has been notified

  Owner, in relation to any land, includes any person who is in occupation of the land under any lease, sublease, or licence, or any renewal of it, granted by the owner of the fee simple, or the lessee, of the land (other than a weekly or monthly tenancy agreement); and also includes a tenant for life of the land and a beneficial owner of the land

  Respondent means the Minister in the case of Government works and the local authority in the case of local works.

  Compare: 1928 No 21 s 101A; 1970 No 145 s 6; 1975 No 138 s 30(1)