New Zealand Legislation: Acts

22 Provisions relating to certificates of title wholly in public foreshore and seabed

• (1) The Registrar must, at the request of the Minister of Conservation and without further authority than this section, cancel the whole of any certificate of title or computer freehold register that comprises land that is wholly within the public foreshore and seabed.

  (2) Immediately upon the cancellation under subsection (1) of a certificate of title or computer freehold register that is subject to a current registered interest or current registered notification, the Registrar must, without further authority than this section,—

  • (a) issue a computer interest register under section 9 of the Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002 for that registered interest or notification; and

  • (b) record on that computer interest register that the land to which the registered interest or notification relates is vested in the Crown by this Act.

  (3) When the interest or notification for which a computer interest register has been issued in accordance with subsection (2)(a) expires or is extinguished or is otherwise determined, the Registrar must, at the request of the Minister of Conservation and without further authority than this section, cancel the computer interest register.

  (4) If the Minister of Conservation makes a request under subsection (1) and the part of the public foreshore and seabed concerned is not electronic transactions land as described in section 25 of the Land Transfer (Computer Registers and Electronic Lodgement) Amendment Act 2002, the Minister of Conservation must also—

  • (a) produce the duplicate of the certificate of title concerned to the Registrar for cancellation; or

  • (b) certify that the duplicate is unavailable by reason of loss or damage.