New Zealand Legislation: Acts

13 Restriction on certain uses of beds of lakes and rivers

• (1) No person may, in relation to the bed of any lake or river,—

  • (a) use, erect, reconstruct, place, alter, extend, remove, or demolish any structure or part of any structure in, on, under, or over the bed; or

  • (b) excavate, drill, tunnel, or otherwise disturb the bed; or

  • (c) introduce or plant any plant or any part of any plant (whether exotic or indigenous) in, on, or under the bed; or

  • (d) deposit any substance in, on, or under the bed; or

  • (e) reclaim or drain the bed—

  unless expressly allowed by a national environmental standard, a rule in a regional plan as well as a rule in a proposed regional plan for the same region (if there is one), or a resource consent.

  (2) No person may do an activity described in subsection (2A) in a manner that contravenes a national environmental standard or a regional rule unless the activity—

  • (a) is expressly allowed by a resource consent; or

  • (b) is an activity allowed by section 20A.

  (2A) The activities are—

  • (a) to enter onto or pass across the bed of a lake or river:

  • (b) to damage, destroy, disturb, or remove a plant or a part of a plant, whether exotic or indigenous, in, on, or under the bed of a lake or river:

  • (c) to damage, destroy, disturb, or remove the habitats of plants or parts of plants, whether exotic or indigenous, in, on, or under the bed of a lake or river:

  • (d) to damage, destroy, disturb, or remove the habitats of animals in, on, or under the bed of a lake or river.

  (3) This section does not apply to any use of land in the coastal marine area.

  (4) Nothing in this section limits section 9.

  Section 13 heading: amended, on 7 July 1993, by section 11 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).

  Section 13(1): substituted, on 7 July 1993, by section 11 of the Resource Management Amendment Act 1993 (1993 No 65).

  Section 13(1): amended, on 1 October 2009, by section 13(1) of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).

  Section 13(2): substituted, on 1 October 2009, by section 13(2) of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).

  Section 13(2A): inserted, on 1 October 2009, by section 13(2) of the Resource Management (Simplifying and Streamlining) Amendment Act 2009 (2009 No 31).