New Zealand Legislation: Acts

18 Land reclaimed before this Act vests in the Crown if not otherwise owned

• (1) This section applies to any land that—

  • (a) has at any time before the commencement of this section been lawfully or unlawfully reclaimed from the foreshore and seabed; and

  • (b) is not, at that commencement, subject to a specified freehold interest or an estate in fee simple held by a local authority.

  (2) On the commencement of this section, the full legal and beneficial ownership of any land to which this section applies is vested in the Crown, so that the land is held by the Crown as its absolute property.

  (3) Subsection (2) does not affect the ownership in any structure or thing that is fixed to, or under or over, any land to which this section applies.

  (4) The land vested by subsection (2) is not part of the public foreshore and seabed.

  (5) Section 9A of the Foreshore and Seabed Endowment Revesting Act 1991 as continued by section 30(2) has effect in respect of any land to which this section applies.

  Section 18(1)(b): amended (with effect from 25 November 2004), on 1 January 2005, by section 60(1) of the Maori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004 (2004 No 107).