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(1) Section 5 of the Reserves and other Lands Disposal and Public Bodies Empowering Act 1915 creates an offence (amongst others) in respect of excavating, quarrying, terracing, or cutting on the side or slope of a volcanic cone or hill in the Auckland Provincial District that is bounded by or abuts on to a domain or other public reserve without express authorisation from the Governor in Council (now the Governor-General by Order in Council).
(2) The requirement to obtain the consent of the Governor-General to this type of local activity is no longer appropriate. Accordingly, the Department of Conservation wishes to replace this requirement with a requirement to obtain the consent of the Minister of Conservation.