New Zealand Legislation: Acts

19 Status of land not affected if reclaimed, after commencement of this section, from public foreshore and seabed

• (1) This section applies to any land that has at any time after the commencement of this section been lawfully or unlawfully reclaimed from the public foreshore and seabed.

  (2) Any land to which this section applies—

  • (a) continues to be vested in the Crown as part of the public foreshore and seabed; and

  • (b) remains subject to this Act.

  (3) Subsection (2) is subject to any Act that vests, or provides for the vesting of, any land to which this section applies in a person other than the Crown.

  (4) To avoid any doubt, nothing in subsection (3) applies to any Act that vests, or provides for the vesting of, any land formed by accretion from the public foreshore and seabed.