In this subpart,—

The responsible Minister must issue each of the protocols, other than Appendix B of the Hokoaetanga Tiaki Miheke, to the trustees on the terms set out in part 4 of the documents schedule.

Appendix B of the Hokoaetanga Tiaki Miheke must be treated as having been issued by the responsible Minister.

The responsible Minister may amend or cancel a protocol at the initiative of—

The responsible Minister may amend or cancel a protocol only after consulting, and having particular regard to the views of, the trustees.

A protocol does not restrict—

The Crown must comply with a protocol while it is in force.

If the Crown fails to comply with a protocol without good cause, the trustees may enforce the protocol, subject to the Crown Proceedings Act 1950.

Despite subsection (2), damages or other forms of monetary compensation are not available as a remedy for a failure by the Crown to comply with a protocol.

To avoid doubt,—

The chief executive of the department of State responsible for the administration of the Crown Minerals Act 1991 must note a summary of the terms of the Crown minerals protocol in—

The noting of the summary is—

The Crown minerals protocol does not have the effect of granting, creating, or providing evidence of an estate or interest in, or rights relating to, Crown minerals.

In this section,—

The chief executive of the Ministry for Primary Industries must note a summary of the terms of the primary industries protocol in any fisheries plan that affects the primary industries protocol area.

The noting of the summary is—

The primary industries protocol does not have the effect of granting, creating, or providing evidence of an estate or interest in, or rights relating to, assets or other property rights (including in respect of fish, aquatic life, or seaweed) that are held, managed, or administered under any of the following enactments:

In this section,—

Appendix B of the Hokoaetanga Tiaki Miheke does not have the effect of granting, creating, or providing evidence of an estate or interest in, or rights relating to, taonga tūturu.

In this section, taonga tūturu—

In this subpart,—

The Crown acknowledges the statements of association for the statutory areas.

The only purposes of the statutory acknowledgement are—

This section applies in relation to an application for a resource consent for an activity within, adjacent to, or directly affecting a statutory area.

On and from the effective date, a relevant consent authority must have regard to the statutory acknowledgement relating to the statutory area in deciding, under section 95E of the Resource Management Act 1991, whether the trustees are affected persons in relation to the activity.

Subsection (2) does not limit the obligations of a relevant consent authority under the Resource Management Act 1991.

This section applies to proceedings in the Environment Court in relation to an application for a resource consent for an activity within, adjacent to, or directly affecting a statutory area.

On and from the effective date, the Environment Court must have regard to the statutory acknowledgement relating to the statutory area in deciding, under section 274 of the Resource Management Act 1991, whether the trustees are persons with an interest in the proceedings greater than that of the general public.

Subsection (2) does not limit the obligations of the Environment Court under the Resource Management Act 1991.

This section applies to an application made under section 44, 56, or 61 of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 for an authority to undertake an activity that will or may modify or destroy an archaeological site within a statutory area.

On and from the effective date, Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga must have regard to the statutory acknowledgement relating to the statutory area in exercising its powers under section 48, 56, or 62 of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014 in relation to the application.

On and from the effective date, the Environment Court must have regard to the statutory acknowledgement relating to the statutory area—

In this section, archaeological site has the meaning given in section 6 of the Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga Act 2014.

On and from the effective date, each relevant consent authority must attach information recording the statutory acknowledgement to all statutory plans that wholly or partly cover a statutory area.

The information attached to a statutory plan must include—

The attachment of information to a statutory plan under this section is for the purpose of public information only and, unless adopted by the relevant consent authority as part of the statutory plan, the information is not—

Each relevant consent authority must, for a period of 20 years on and from the effective date, provide the following to the trustees for each resource consent application for an activity within, adjacent to, or directly affecting a statutory area:

A summary provided under subsection (1)(a) must be the same as would be given to an affected person by limited notification under section 95B(4) of the Resource Management Act 1991 or as may be agreed between the trustees and the relevant consent authority.

The summary must be provided—

A copy of a notice must be provided under subsection (1)(b) not later than 10 working days after the day on which the consent authority receives the notice.

The trustees may, by written notice to a relevant consent authority,—

This section does not affect the obligation of a relevant consent authority to decide,—

The trustees and any member of Moriori may, as evidence of the association of Moriori with a statutory area, cite the statutory acknowledgement that relates to that area in submissions concerning activities within, adjacent to, or directly affecting the statutory area that are made to or before—

The content of a statement of association is not, because of the statutory acknowledgement, binding as fact on—

However, the bodies and persons specified in subsection (2) may take the statutory acknowledgement into account.

To avoid doubt,—

This section applies in respect of the statutory areas listed in Part 2 of Schedule 1.

The Minister of Conservation and the Director-General must issue a deed of recognition in the form set out in part 3 of the documents schedule for the statutory areas.

The Minister of Conservation and the Director-General may amend a deed of recognition, but only with the written consent of the trustees.

The statutory acknowledgement and a deed of recognition do not affect, and must not be taken into account by, a person exercising a power or performing a function or duty under an enactment or a bylaw.

A person, in considering a matter or making a decision or recommendation under an enactment or a bylaw, must not give greater or lesser weight to the association of Moriori with a statutory area than that person would give if there were no statutory acknowledgement or deed of recognition for the statutory area.

Subsection (2) does not limit subsection (1).

This section is subject to—

The statutory acknowledgement and a deed of recognition—

This section is subject to the other provisions of this subpart.

This section amends the Resource Management Act 1991.

In Schedule 11, insert in its appropriate alphabetical order:

In this subpart,—

Each area described in Schedule 2 is declared to be subject to the overlay classification.

The Crown acknowledges the statements of values for the overlay areas.

The only purposes of the overlay classification are—

The protection principles are intended to prevent the values stated in the statement of values for an overlay area from being harmed or diminished.

When the New Zealand Conservation Authority or a Conservation Board considers a conservation management strategy, conservation management plan, or national park management plan that relates to an overlay area, the Authority or Board must have particular regard to—

Before approving a strategy or plan that relates to an overlay area, the New Zealand Conservation Authority or a Conservation Board must—

If the trustees advise the New Zealand Conservation Authority in writing that they have significant concerns about a draft conservation management strategy in relation to an overlay area, the Authority must, before approving the strategy, give the trustees an opportunity to make submissions in relation to those concerns.

The application of the overlay classification to an overlay area must be noted in any conservation management strategy, conservation management plan, or national park management plan affecting the area.

The noting of the overlay classification is—

The Minister of Conservation must notify in the Gazette, as soon as practicable after the settlement date,—

An amendment to the protection principles, as agreed by the trustees and the Minister of Conservation, must be notified by the Minister in the Gazette as soon as practicable after the amendment has been agreed in writing.

The Director-General may notify in the Gazette any action (including any specified action) taken or intended to be taken under section 48 or 49.

The Director-General must take action in relation to the protection principles that relate to an overlay area, including the specified actions.

The Director-General retains complete discretion to determine the method and extent of the action to be taken.

The Director-General must notify the trustees in writing of any action that the Director-General intends to take.

The Director-General may initiate an amendment to a conservation management strategy, conservation management plan, or national park management plan to incorporate objectives for the protection principles that relate to an overlay area.

The Director-General must consult relevant Conservation Boards before initiating the amendment.

The amendment is an amendment for the purposes of section 17I(1) to (3) of the Conservation Act 1987 or section 46(1) to (4) of the National Parks Act 1980.

The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister of Conservation, make regulations for 1 or more of the following purposes:

Regulations made under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

The Minister of Conservation may make bylaws for 1 or more of the following purposes:

Bylaws made under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

This section applies if, at any time, the overlay classification applies to any land in—

The overlay classification does not affect—

The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister of Conservation, declare that all or part of an overlay area is no longer subject to the overlay classification.

The Minister of Conservation must not make a recommendation for the purposes of subsection (1) unless—

The Crown must take reasonable steps to ensure that the trustees continue to have input into the management of a relevant area if—

The Minister of Conservation must ensure that an order made under this section is published in the Gazette.

The overlay classification does not affect, and must not be taken into account by, any person exercising a power or performing a function or duty under an enactment or a bylaw.

A person, in considering a matter or making a decision or recommendation under legislation or a bylaw, must not give greater or lesser weight to the values stated in the statement of values for an overlay area than that person would give if the area were not subject to the overlay classification.

Subsection (2) does not limit subsection (1).

This section is subject to the other provisions of this subpart.

The overlay classification does not—

This section is subject to the other provisions of this subpart.

In this subpart,—

A name specified in the second column of the table in clause 5.47 of the deed of settlement is the official geographic name of the feature described in the third and fourth columns of that table.

Each official geographic name is to be treated as if it were an official geographic name that takes effect on the settlement date by virtue of a determination of the Board made under section 19 of the Act.

The existing name of each Crown protected area is changed to the new name as follows:

Each new name given to a Crown protected area is to be treated as if—

The Board must, as soon as practicable after the settlement date, give public notice, in accordance with section 21(2) and (3) of the Act, of each official geographic name specified under section 57.

The notice must state that each official geographic name became an official geographic name on the settlement date.

In making a determination to alter the official geographic name of a feature named under section 57(1), the Board—

To avoid doubt, the Board must give public notice of a determination made under subsection (1) in accordance with section 21(2) and (3) of the Act.

The official geographic name of a Crown protected area named under section 57(3) must not be changed in accordance with subpart 3 of Part 2 of the Act without the written consent of the trustees, and any requirements under that subpart or another enactment for public notice of or consultation about the proposed name do not apply.

The Minister of Fisheries responsible Minister must recommend the making of regulations under section 186 of the Fisheries Act 1996 that—

However, the Minister of Fisheries responsible Minister must not recommend the making of the regulations unless—

Despite anything in the Fisheries Act 1996, the notice in the Gazette for bylaws made under the regulations is neither a legislative instrument nor a disallowable instrument for the purposes of the Legislation Act 2012 and does not have to be presented to the House of Representatives under section 41 of that Act.

In this section,—

In this subpart,—

The Glory housing property ceases to be a conservation area under the Conservation Act 1987.

The fee simple estate in the Glory housing property vests in the trustees.

Subsections (1) and (2) do not take effect until the trustees have provided the Crown with a registrable restrictive covenant in gross on the terms and conditions set out in part 5.1 of the documents schedule.

The fee simple estate in the Owenga property vests in the trustees.

The fee simple estate in Te Awanui vests in the trustees.

The Waipāua property ceases to be a conservation area under the Conservation Act 1987.

The fee simple estate in the Waipāua property vests in the trustees.

The reservation of the Rangiauria property (being Rangiauria Scenic Reserve) as a scenic reserve subject to the Reserves Act 1977 is revoked.

The fee simple estate in the Rangiauria property vests in the trustees.

The Rangiauria property is declared a reserve and classified as a scenic reserve for the purposes specified in section 19(1)(a) of the Reserves Act 1977.

The reserve is named Rangiauria Scenic Reserve.

The Waipāua coastal property ceases to be a conservation area under the Conservation Act 1987.

The fee simple estate in the Waipāua coastal property vests in the trustees.

The Waipāua coastal property is declared a reserve and classified as a scenic reserve for the purposes specified in section 19(1)(a) of the Reserves Act 1977.

The reserve is named Waipāua Coastal Scenic Reserve.

Subsections (1) to (4) do not take effect until the trustees have provided the Crown with a registrable easement in gross for a right of way on the terms and conditions set out in part 5.4 of the documents schedule.

Despite the provisions of the Reserves Act 1977, the easement—

The part of the Glory block that is a conservation area under the Conservation Act 1987 ceases to be a conservation area.

The reservation of the part of the Glory block that is a scenic reserve subject to the Reserves Act 1977 (being part of Canister Cove Scenic Reserve) is revoked.

The fee simple estate in the Glory block vests in the trustees.

The Glory block is declared a reserve and classified as a local purpose (ecological restoration and community purposes) reserve subject to section 23 of the Reserves Act 1977 for the purpose of protecting, managing, and restoring ecological values of the land while also contributing to the social, educational, cultural, and economic development of Rangihaute/Pitt Island (being Pitt Island (Rangiauria)).

The reserve is named Glory Local Purpose Reserve.

Subsections (1) to (5) do not take effect until—

Despite the provisions of the Reserves Act 1977, the easement and the lease—

The lease is not a subdivision of land for the purposes of section 218(1)(a)(iii) of the Resource Management Act 1991.

The Waihere block ceases to be a conservation area under the Conservation Act 1987.

The fee simple estate in the Waihere block vests in the trustees.

The Waihere block is declared a reserve and classified as a local purpose (ecological restoration and community purposes) reserve subject to section 23 of the Reserves Act 1977 for the purpose of protecting, managing, and restoring ecological values of the land while also contributing to the social, educational, cultural, and economic development of Rangihaute/Pitt Island (being Pitt Island (Rangiauria)).

The reserve is named Waihere Local Purpose Reserve.

Subsections (1) to (4) do not take effect until—

The administering body of the Glory block or the Waihere block must comply with the deed for the blocks in granting any interest in relation to the blocks, despite sections 61(2) and (2A) and 74 of the Reserves Act 1977.

If the administering body of the Glory block or the Waihere block receives funds under any of the following, it may apply the funds only for the purposes for which the Rangihaute Land Trust was established:

Section 72(3), but not section 72(1), of the Reserves Act 1977 applies to any agreement, licence, or lease to graze on the Glory block or the Waihere block that is granted while the Rangihaute Land Trust exists.

In this section,—

Each cultural redress property vested under this subpart is subject to, or has the benefit of, any interests listed for the property in the third column of the table in Schedule 3.

This section applies if a cultural redress property is subject to an interest (other than an interest in land) that is listed for the property in the third column of the table in Schedule 3, and for which there is a grantor, whether or not the interest also applies to land outside the cultural redress property.

The interest applies as if the owners of the cultural redress property were the grantor of the interest in respect of the property.

The interest applies—

This section applies to a cultural redress property vested in the trustees under this subpart.

Subsection (3) applies to a cultural redress property (other than the Owenga property), but only to the extent that the property is all of the land contained in a record of title for a fee simple estate.

The Registrar-General must, on written application by an authorised person,—

Subsection (5) applies to—

The Registrar-General must, in accordance with a written application by an authorised person,—

Subsection (5) is subject to the completion of any survey necessary to create a record of title.

A record of title must be created under this section as soon as is reasonably practicable after the settlement date, but not later than—

In this section, authorised person means a person authorised by—

The vesting of the fee simple estate in a cultural redress property in the trustees under this subpart is a disposition for the purposes of Part 4A of the Conservation Act 1987, but sections 24(2A), 24A, and 24AA of that Act do not apply to the disposition.

Section 24 of the Conservation Act 1987 does not apply to the vesting of a reserve property.

The marginal strip reserved by section 24 of the Conservation Act 1987 from the vesting of the Owenga property is increased to a width of 25 metres.

The trustees are appointed as the manager of the marginal strip reserved from the vesting of the Owenga property as if the appointment were made under section 24H of the Conservation Act 1987.

If the reservation of a reserve property under this subpart is revoked for all or part of the property, the vesting of the property is no longer exempt from section 24 (except subsection (2A)) of the Conservation Act 1987 for all or that part of the property.

Subsections (2), (3), and (5) do not limit subsection (1).

The Registrar-General must record on the record of title—

A notation made under subsection (1) that land is subject to Part 4A of the Conservation Act 1987 is to be treated as having been made in compliance with section 24D(1) of that Act.

For a reserve property, if the reservation of the property under this subpart is revoked for—

The Registrar-General must comply with an application received in accordance with subsection (3)(a).

The vesting of the fee simple estate in a cultural redress property under this subpart does not—

The permission of a council under section 348 of the Local Government Act 1974 is not required for laying out, forming, granting, or reserving a private road, private way, or right of way required to fulfil the terms of the deed of settlement in relation to a cultural redress property.

Sections 24 and 25 of the Reserves Act 1977 do not apply to the revocation, under this subpart, of the reserve status of a cultural redress property.

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

Subsection (2) applies to the land, or the part of the land, in a cultural redress property that, immediately before the settlement date, was all or part of a Crown protected area.

The official geographic name of the Crown protected area is discontinued in respect of the land, or the part of the land, and the Board must amend the Gazetteer accordingly.

In this section, Board, Crown protected area, Gazetteer, and official geographic name have the meanings given in section 4 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008.

The trustees are the administering body of a reserve property.

Sections 78(1)(a), 79 to 81, and 88 of the Reserves Act 1977 do not apply in relation to a reserve property.

If the reservation of a reserve property under this subpart is revoked under section 24 of the Reserves Act 1977 for all or part of the property, section 25(2) of that Act applies to the revocation, but not the rest of section 25 of that Act.

A reserve property is not a Crown protected area under the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008, despite anything in that Act.

A reserve property must not have a name assigned to it or have its name changed under section 16(10) of the Reserves Act 1977 without the written consent of the owners of the property, and section 16(10A) of that Act does not apply to the proposed name.

This section applies to all or the part of a reserve property that remains a reserve under the Reserves Act 1977 after the property has vested in the trustees under this subpart.

The fee simple estate in the reserve land may be transferred only in accordance with section 80 or 81.

In this section and sections 80 to 82, reserve land means the land that remains a reserve as described in subsection (1).

The registered owners of the reserve land may apply in writing to the Minister of Conservation for consent to transfer the fee simple estate in the reserve land to 1 or more persons (the new owners).

The Minister of Conservation must give written consent to the transfer if the registered owners satisfy the Minister that the new owners are able—

The Registrar-General must, upon receiving the required documents, register the new owners as the owners of the fee simple estate in the reserve land.

The required documents are—

The new owners, from the time of their registration under this section,—

A transfer that complies with this section need not comply with any other requirements.

The registered owners of the reserve land may transfer the fee simple estate in the reserve land if—

The owners of reserve land must not mortgage, or give a security interest in, the reserve land.

This section applies to any bylaw, or any prohibition or restriction on use or access, that an administering body or the Minister of Conservation made or imposed under the Conservation Act 1987 or the Reserves Act 1977 in relation to a reserve property before the property was vested in the trustees under this subpart.

The bylaw, prohibition, or restriction remains in force until it expires or is revoked under the Conservation Act 1987 or the Reserves Act 1977.

In this subpart,—

To give effect to part 6 of the deed of settlement, the Crown (acting by and through the chief executive of the land holding agency) is authorised—

Subsection (3) applies to a deferred selection property that is subject to a resumptive memorial recorded under any enactment listed in section 17(2).

As soon as is reasonably practicable after the date on which a deferred selection property is transferred to the trustees, the chief executive of the land holding agency must give written notice of that date to the chief executive of LINZ for the purposes of section 18 (which relates to the cancellation of resumptive memorials).

This section applies to each deferred selection property that is to be transferred to the trustees under section 85.

However, this section applies only to the extent that—

The Registrar-General must, in accordance with a written application by an authorised person,—

Subsection (3) is subject to the completion of any survey necessary to create a record of title.

In this section and section 87, authorised person means a person authorised by the chief executive of the land holding agency for the relevant property.

For the purposes of section 86, the authorised person may grant a covenant for the later creation of a record of title for a fee simple estate in any deferred selection property.

Despite the Land Transfer Act 2017,—

This section applies to the transfer to the trustees of the fee simple estate in a deferred selection property.

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

The transfer does not—

The permission of a council under section 348 of the Local Government Act 1974 is not required for laying out, forming, granting, or reserving a private road, private way, or right of way required to fulfil the terms of the deed of settlement in relation to the transfer.

Section 11 and Part 10 of the Resource Management Act 1991 do not apply to the transfer or to any matter incidental to, or required for the purpose of, the transfer.

In exercising the powers conferred by section 85, the Crown is not required to comply with any other enactment that would otherwise regulate or apply to the transfer.

Subsection (6) is subject to subsections (2) and (3).

In this subpart and Schedule 4,—

In this subpart, shared RFR land means—

Land ceases to be shared RFR land if—

This section applies to shared RFR land that—

The Minister for Treaty of Waitangi Negotiations must give notice to the RFR landowner, and to the trustees of the 1 or more offer trusts, that the land ceases to be shared RFR land.

The notice may be given at any time before a contract is formed under section 98 for the disposal of the land.

In this section, historical Treaty claim has the meaning given in section 2 of the Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975.

A governance entity established by Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri may participate as an offer trust, but only on and from the settlement date under approving legislation for Ngāti Mutunga o Wharekauri.

An RFR landowner must not dispose of shared RFR land to a person other than the trustees of a recipient trust or their nominee unless the land is disposed of—

An offer by an RFR landowner to dispose of shared RFR land to the trustees of an offer trust must be by notice to the trustees of the 1 or more offer trusts.

The notice must include—

The expiry date of an offer must be on or after the date that is 40 working days after the date on which the trustees of the 1 or more offer trusts receive notice of the offer.

However, the expiry date of an offer may be on or after the date that is 20 working days after the date on which those trustees receive notice of the offer if—

If the RFR landowner has received notice of acceptance from the trustees of 2 offer trusts at the end of the expiry date specified in the notice of offer given under section 94, the expiry date is extended to the 20th working day after the day on which those trustees receive the RFR landowner’s notice given under section 97(4).

The RFR landowner may, by notice to the trustees of the 1 or more offer trusts, withdraw an offer at any time before it is accepted.

The trustees of an offer trust may, by notice to the RFR landowner who made an offer, accept the offer if—

Those trustees must accept all the shared RFR land offered, unless the offer permits them to accept less.

The offer is accepted only if the RFR landowner has received notice of acceptance from the trustees of only 1 offer trust at the end of the expiry date.

If the RFR landowner has received notice of acceptance from the trustees of 2 offer trusts at the end of the expiry date specified in the notice of offer given under section 94, the RFR landowner has 10 working days to give notice to the trustees of the 2 offer trusts.

The RFR landowner’s notice must state that—

If the trustees of an offer trust accept an offer by an RFR landowner to dispose of shared RFR land, a contract for the disposal of the land is formed between the RFR landowner and those trustees on the terms in the offer.

The terms of the contract may be varied by written agreement between the RFR landowner and those trustees.

Under the contract, those trustees may nominate any person (the nominee) to receive the transfer of the shared RFR land.

Those trustees may nominate a nominee only if—

The notice must specify—

If those trustees nominate a nominee, they remain liable for the obligations of the transferee under the contract.

An RFR landowner may dispose of shared RFR land to—

To avoid doubt, the Crown may dispose of shared RFR land to a Crown body in accordance with section 143(5) or 206 of the Education Act 1989 section 563 of the Education and Training Act 2020.

An RFR landowner may dispose of shared RFR land that is a public work or part of a public work, in accordance with section 50 of the Public Works Act 1981, to a local authority, as defined in section 2 of that Act.

To avoid doubt, if shared RFR land is disposed of to a local authority under subsection (1), the local authority becomes—

An RFR landowner may dispose of shared RFR land in accordance with section 26 or 26A of the Reserves Act 1977.

To avoid doubt, if shared RFR land that is a reserve is vested in an administering body under subsection (1), the administering body does not become—

However, if shared RFR land vests back in the Crown under section 25 or 27 of the Reserves Act 1977, the Crown becomes—

An RFR landowner may dispose of shared RFR land in accordance with an obligation under any enactment or rule of law.

An RFR landowner may dispose of shared RFR land in accordance with—

An RFR landowner may dispose of shared RFR land in accordance with—

An RFR landowner may dispose of shared RFR land in accordance with—

To avoid doubt, shared RFR land may be disposed of by an order of the Māori Land Court under section 134 of Te Ture Whenua Maori Act 1993, after an application by an RFR landowner under section 41(e) section 41(1)(e) of the Public Works Act 1981.

An RFR landowner may dispose of shared RFR land in accordance with—

An RFR landowner may dispose of shared RFR land as a gift for charitable purposes.

The Crown may dispose of shared RFR land,—

The Canterbury District Health Board, or any of its subsidiaries, may dispose of shared RFR land to any person if the Minister of Health has given notice to the trustees of the 1 or more offer trusts that, in the Minister’s opinion, the disposal will achieve, or assist in achieving, the district health board’s objectives.

An RFR landowner’s obligations under this subpart in relation to shared RFR land are subject to—

Reasonable steps, for the purposes of subsection (1)(b)(ii), does not include steps to promote the passing of an enactment.

If a record of title is first created for shared RFR land after the RFR date, the RFR landowner must give the chief executive of LINZ notice that the register record of title has been created.

If land for which there is a record of title becomes shared RFR land after the RFR date, the RFR landowner must give the chief executive of LINZ notice that the land has become shared RFR land.

The notice must be given as soon as is reasonably practicable after a record of title is first created for the shared RFR land or after the land becomes shared RFR land.

The notice must include the legal description of the land and the reference for the record of title.

This section applies if an RFR landowner is considering whether to dispose of shared RFR land in a way that may require an offer under this subpart.

The RFR landowner must give notice to the trustees of the 1 or more offer trusts that, if the landowner decides to dispose of the land, the landowner may be required to offer the land to the trustees of an offer trust under this subpart.

The notice must be given immediately before the RFR landowner starts the processes under any of the following provisions, as relevant:

The notice must include—

To avoid doubt, a notice given under this section does not, of itself, mean that an obligation has arisen under—

In this section, dispose of means to transfer the fee simple estate in the land.

An RFR landowner must give the trustees of the 1 or more offer trusts notice of the disposal of shared RFR land by the landowner to a person other than the trustees of an offer trust or their nominee.

The notice must be given on or before the date that is 20 working days before the day of the disposal.

The notice must include—

Subsections (2) and (3) apply if land contained in a record of title is to cease being shared RFR land because—

The RFR landowner must, as early as practicable before the transfer or vesting, give the chief executive of LINZ notice that the land is to cease being shared RFR land.

The notice must include—

Subsections (5) and (6) apply if land contained in a record of title ceases to be shared RFR land because a notice is given under section 91 in relation to the land.

The RFR landowner must, as soon as practicable after receiving the notice under section 91, give the chief executive of LINZ notice that the land has ceased to be shared RFR land.

The notice must include—

Schedule 4 applies to notices given under this subpart by or to—

The chief executive of LINZ must issue to the Registrar-General 1 or more certificates that specify the legal descriptions of, and identify the records of title for,—

The chief executive must issue a certificate as soon as is reasonably practicable—

Each certificate must state that it is issued under this section.

The chief executive must provide a copy of each certificate to the trustees of the 1 or more offer trusts as soon as is reasonably practicable after issuing the certificate.

The Registrar-General must, as soon as is reasonably practicable after receiving a certificate issued under this section, record on each record of title for the shared RFR land identified in the certificate that the land is—

The chief executive of LINZ must, before registration of the transfer or vesting of land described in a notice received under section 114(2), issue to the Registrar-General a certificate that includes—

The chief executive must provide a copy of each certificate to the trustees of the 1 or more offer trusts as soon as is reasonably practicable after issuing the certificate.

If the Registrar-General receives a certificate issued under this section, the Registrar-General must, immediately before registering the transfer or vesting described in the certificate, remove from the record of title identified in the certificate any notation recorded under section 116 for the land described in the certificate.

The chief executive of LINZ must, as soon as is reasonably practicable after receiving a notice under section 114(5), issue to the Registrar-General a certificate that includes—

The Registrar-General must, as soon as is reasonably practicable after receiving a certificate issued under this section, remove from the record of title identified in the certificate any notation recorded under section 116 for the land described in the certificate.

The chief executive of LINZ must, as soon as is reasonably practicable after the RFR period ends, issue to the Registrar-General a certificate that includes—

The chief executive must provide a copy of each certificate to the trustees of the 1 or more offer trusts as soon as is reasonably practicable after issuing the certificate.

The Registrar-General must, as soon as is reasonably practicable after receiving a certificate issued under this section, remove any notation recorded under section 116 from any record of title identified in the certificate.

The trustees of an offer trust may, by notice to an RFR landowner, waive any or all of the rights those trustees have in relation to the landowner under this subpart.

The trustees of an offer trust and an RFR landowner may agree in writing to vary or waive any of the rights each has in relation to the other under this subpart.

A waiver or an agreement under this section is on the terms, and applies for the period, specified in it.

This subpart does not limit the ability of the Crown, or a Crown body, to sell or dispose of a Crown body.

Subsection (3) applies if the RFR holder—

The RFR holder must give notices to each RFR landowner that—

This subpart and Schedule 4 apply to the assignees (instead of to the RFR holder) as if the assignees were the trustees of the relevant offer trust, with any necessary modifications.

In this section,—