New Zealand Legislation: Acts

8 Act to bind the Crown

• (1) This Act binds the Crown.

  (2) Despite subsection (1), where the Crown—

  • (a) is the owner of any animal or wildlife by virtue of—

    • (i) section 9(1) of the Wild Animal Control Act 1977; or

    • (ii) section 57(3) of the Wildlife Act 1953; or

  • (b) is, by virtue of any other Act, the owner of any other animal (being an animal in a wild state); or

  • (c) has, under any other Act, the responsibility of administering and managing an animal (being an animal in a wild state),—

  the ownership of the animal or wildlife, or the responsibility of administering and managing the animal, does not of itself make the Crown subject to any obligation or liability under this Act in respect of the animal or wildlife.

  Compare: 1960 No 30 s 19A(8); 1983 No 141 s 6