New Zealand Legislation: Acts
Acts are laws made by Parliament
(1) Every regional council has, in relation to its region, power to—
(a) cause to be carried out, for the purposes of Part 5,—
(i) monitoring to determine whether or not there are present; and
(ii) surveillance of—
pests, pest agents, and unwanted organisms:
(b) provide, in accordance with relevant pest management strategies, for the assessment and management or eradication of pests:
(c) prepare proposals for, notify, make, and implement pest management strategies:
(d) if a regional pest management strategy notified by the council has been made under this Act,—
(i) appoint a management agency in respect of the strategy under section 84(4):
(ii) disallow the operational plan or any part of that plan under section 85(4):
(iii) review, amend, or revoke a strategy in accordance with this Act:
(e) declare and implement a small-scale management programme under section 100:
(f) where the council has, under section 100, agreed or arranged that steps to bring an organism under control should be taken by some person or persons other than the council, to meet (in part or in whole) the costs to that person or those persons of the taking of those steps:
(g) gather information, keep records, undertake research, or do any other similar thing, if doing so is necessary or desirable to enable it to act effectively under this Act:
(h) take any action contemplated by or necessary for giving effect to any provision of this Act.
(2) Subject to sections 97 and 97A, every regional council has all the powers of a territorial authority under section 14; and every reference in that section to a territorial authority (or territorial authorities) must be read as including a reference to a regional council (or regional councils).
Section 13: substituted, on 26 November 1997, by section 8 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 89).
