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National Parks Amendment Act 1964

Public Act		1964 No 102
Date of assent		18 November 1964

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Particular powers of Boards
3	Wilderness areas
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the National Parks Act 1952

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

1 Short Title

This Act may be cited as the National Parks Amendment Act 1964, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the National Parks Act 1952 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Particular powers of Boards

(1)

Section 28 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting in subsection (1), after paragraph (i), the following paragraph:

“(ii)

With the prior consent of the Authority, and subject to such terms, conditions, and rental (nominal or otherwise) as the Authority approves, on behalf of Her Majesty, grant leases or licences of land within the Park, as sites for dwellings for persons or bodies of persons (whether incorporated or not) carrying on any trade, business, or occupation within the Park, or as sites for dwellings for any person permanently employed by such persons or bodies of persons:”.

(2)

This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-three.

3 Wilderness areas

Section 34 of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding to paragraph (b) of subsection (2) the following proviso:

“Provided that the Board, with the prior consent of the Authority, may erect or authorise the erection of huts for the use of officers of any Department of State or other persons engaged under lawful authority in the destruction or eradication of introduced flora and fauna in the Park.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Lands and Survey.

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