New Zealand Legislation: Acts

7 Rights of access

• (1) In this section, access rights means—

  • (a) the right to be in or on the public foreshore and seabed; and

  • (b) the right to enter, remain in, and leave the public foreshore and seabed; and

  • (c) the right to pass and repass in, on, over, and across the public foreshore and seabed; and

  • (d) the right to engage in recreational activities in or on the public foreshore and seabed.

  (2) Every natural person has access rights in, on, over, or across the public foreshore and seabed.

  (3) The access rights conferred by subsection (2) may be exercised subject to any authorised limits, including prohibitions, on access that are imposed by or under an enactment, including a notice in the Gazette issued under section 26.

  (4) Unless the enactment or other instrument that authorises a limit of the kind described in subsection (3) otherwise provides, the limit may be applied—

  • (a) to any or all access rights:

  • (b) to any method or methods of exercising access rights:

  • (c) for a definite period or an indefinite period or for periods that arise from time to time:

  • (d) in respect of 1 or more particular areas or a general area.