Reprint as at 12 November 2018
Changes authorised by subpart 2 of Part 2 of the Legislation Act 2012 have been made in this official reprint.
Note 4 at the end of this reprint provides a list of the amendments incorporated.
This Act is administered by Land Information New Zealand.
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:
This Act is the Canterbury Property Boundaries and Related Matters Act 2016.
This Act comes into force on the day after the date on which it receives the Royal assent.
The purpose of this Act is to—
provide certainty to surveying and titles in greater Christchurch following the Canterbury earthquakes:
support the planning, rebuilding, and recovery of affected communities, including the repair and rebuilding of land, infrastructure, and other property in greater Christchurch:
maintain public confidence in the cadastre.
In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires,—
cadastral survey and cadastre have the meanings given by section 4 of the Cadastral Survey Act 2002
Canterbury earthquakes means any earthquake in Canterbury in the period starting on 4 September 2010 and ending on 13 February 2022, and includes any aftershock in that period
greater Christchurch means the districts of the Christchurch City Council, the Selwyn District Council, and the Waimakariri District Council, and includes the coastal marine area adjacent to those districts
interim period means the period starting on 4 September 2010 and ending on the commencement of this Act
landslip means the movement by way of falling, sliding, or flowing of materials that—
formed an integral part of the ground before the movement; but
had become loose material after the movement (other than by liquefaction).
The transitional, savings, and related provisions (if any) set out in Schedule 1 have effect according to their terms.
This Act binds the Crown.
Sections 8 and 9 apply to all boundaries that determine the spatial extent of land (whether horizontal or vertical boundaries, and including moveable boundaries), including the boundaries—
in any cadastral survey or the cadastre; or
of any estate or interest in land or any title to land.
(1)
The boundaries within greater Christchurch on and from the commencement of this Act are redefined as set out in this section.
(2)
The boundaries are deemed to have moved or to move with the movement of land caused by the Canterbury earthquakes (whether the movement was horizontal or vertical, or both), unless the movement was a landslip.
(3)
To avoid doubt, nothing in this section affects—
the validity of an estate or interest in land, and the land (as moved) continues to be the same land, and affected by the same interests, as before the movement:
the boundaries within greater Christchurch before the commencement of this Act.
(4)
This section applies—
despite any other enactment, but subject to section 9; and
despite any rule of law.
A cadastral survey continues to determine the boundaries of any land surveyed within greater Christchurch if the survey satisfies the following (an approved interim survey):
it was done in good faith and without negligence in the interim period; and
its cadastral survey dataset was determined to be compliant under section 9(a) of the Cadastral Survey Act 2002 in the interim period.
However, this Act does not remove any conflict between the following boundaries (a boundary conflict):
the boundaries determined by an approved interim survey; and
any boundaries as redefined by section 8 or as determined by another approved interim survey.
Subsection (1) does not prevent a boundary conflict from being resolved, and a boundary conflict between the boundaries that define land for the purposes of registration under the Land Transfer Act 2017 is to be treated as an error or unlawful alteration to the register for the purposes of—
section 21 of that Act, which gives the Registrar-General of Land a power to alter the register; and
sections 58 and 59 of that Act, which give a person who sustains certain losses a right to claim compensation from the Crown.
For the purpose of subsection (3), boundaries that define land for the purposes of registration under the Land Transfer Act 2017 means the boundaries shown on a plan deposited under section 224 of that Act or otherwise incorporated in the register kept under that Act.
Section 9(3): replaced, on 12 November 2018, by section 250 of the Land Transfer Act 2017 (2017 No 30).
Section 9(4): inserted, on 12 November 2018, by section 250 of the Land Transfer Act 2017 (2017 No 30).
A boundary adjustment that removes a boundary conflict referred to in section 9 by adjusting the boundary to comply with section 8 is not a subdivision of land for the purposes of section 11 or Part 10 of the Resource Management Act 1991.
This section applies to a cadastral survey or boundary determination of land in greater Christchurch—
that was done in the interim period; and
that was done on the basis that boundaries did, or did not, move with the movement of land caused by the Canterbury earthquakes (the basis).
No person is liable for performing or approving the survey or determination if the liability would not have arisen had the survey or determination been done on the opposite basis.
No person is liable for anything done or not done in the interim period in reliance on the survey or determination if the liability would not have arisen had the survey or determination been done on the opposite basis.
To avoid doubt, this section—
removes any liability under section 52 of the Cadastral Survey Act 2002 or section 7 of the Crown Grants Act 1908; but
does not remove liability for any negligence, bad faith, misconduct, or breach of legal obligations or professional standards that does not relate to whether boundaries did, or did not, move with the movement of land caused by the Canterbury earthquakes.
(5)
In this section, approving means determining compliance under section 9(a) of the Cadastral Survey Act 2002.
This section amends the Cadastral Survey Act 2002.
After section 7(1)(g), insert:
to issue guidelines about standards set by the Surveyor-General under this Act:
After section 7(2), insert:
Guidelines issued under section 7(1)(ga) do not have legal effect.
s 5
There are no transitional, savings, or related provisions relating to this Act as enacted.
This is a reprint of the Canterbury Property Boundaries and Related Matters Act 2016 that incorporates all the amendments to that Act as at the date of the last amendment to it.
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Land Transfer Act 2017 (2017 No 30): section 250