New Zealand Legislation: Acts

29 Application of other enactments to transfer of selected DSP property

• (1) Section 11 and Part 10 of the Resource Management Act 1991 do not apply to—

  • (a) the transfer of a selected DSP property in accordance with this Act; or

  • (b) any matter incidental to, or required for the purpose of, that transfer.

  (2) The transfer of a selected DSP property in accordance with this Act—

  • (a) does not limit section 10 or 11 of the Crown Minerals Act 1991; and

  • (b) does not affect other rights to subsurface minerals; and

  • (c) does not limit the rights and obligations of the Crown or a local authority in respect of geothermal energy and geothermal water (as both terms are defined in section 2(1) of the Resource Management Act 1991) under any enactment or rule of law; and

  • (d) is a disposition for the purposes of Part 4A of the Conservation Act 1987, except that sections 24(2A), 24A, and 24AA of that Act do not apply to the disposition.

  (3) The Crown is not required to comply with any other enactment that would otherwise regulate or apply to the transfer of a selected DSP property in accordance with this Act.

  (4) Subsection (3) is subject to subsection (2).

  (5) The permission of a council under section 348 of the Local Government Act 1974 is not required to lay out, form, grant, or reserve a private road, private way, or right of way required by the deed of settlement in relation to a selected DSP property.

  (6) A statement that the transfer of a selected DSP property has been effected under this section is sufficient evidence to that effect if it is executed by the Registrar-General on the document effecting the transfer.