Crown Forest Assets Act 1989

37 Recommendation by Waitangi Tribunal that Crown forest land not liable to return to Maori ownership

• (1) Where the Waitangi Tribunal makes a recommendation in relation to Crown forest land under section 8HB(1)(b) or section 8HB(1)(c) or section 8HE of the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975 no person shall be entitled to make any claim under section 6 of that Act in respect of the return of that land.

  (2) The responsible Ministers may, by notice in the Gazette, declare that Crown forest land to which subsection (1) applies, and which is not licensed land, shall cease to be Crown forest land and on the publication of the notice the land shall be Crown land subject to the Land Act 1948.