New Zealand Legislation: Acts

25 Additional allocation of space to iwi

• (1) The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister of Fisheries, direct a regional council to—

  • (a) identify, at the same time that the council identifies space under section 9 and in addition to the space identified under section 9, a specified percentage (being not more than 20%) of the new space available for application for coastal permits or allocation of authorisations; and

  • (b) allocate authorisations for the identified new space to the trustee.

  (2) The Minister may make a recommendation at any time after the commencement of this Act, but if the Order in Council is made within 3 months before the regional coastal plan concerned becomes operative, the Order in Council does not apply to the identification of space for the trustee under section 9.

  (3) An Order in Council made under subsection (1) does not affect any allocation advertised, or application for a coastal permit made, before the Order in Council comes into force.

  (4) New space identified under this section must not include any new space that is subject to a reservation relating to commercial fishing.

  (5) New space identified under this section must be representative of all new space being established by the regional coastal plan concerned. For the purposes of this section, sections 9(7), 10, 11, and 12 apply with all necessary modifications.

  (6) This section does not apply to space in an aquaculture management area established in response to a request under section 165Z of the Resource Management Act 1991.