Fisheries (Notification of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for Area/Rohe Moana of Te Rūnanga o Moeraki) Notice 2018

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Fisheries (Notification of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for Area/Rohe Moana of Te Rūnanga o Moeraki) Notice 2018

Pursuant to regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Minister of Fisheries gives the following notice.

Notice

1 Title

This notice is the Fisheries (Notification of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for Area/Rohe Moana of Te Rūnanga o Moeraki) Notice 2018.

2 Commencement

This notice comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.

3 Revocation of this notice

This notice is revoked on 3 May 2023.

4 Customary food gathering area/rohe moana

This notice applies to the customary food gathering area/rohe moana defined by clause 2(c) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 6) 1998 (Gazette 1998, p 4184), which is the area from the mouth of the Waitaki River south to the mouth of the Shag River.

5 Reappointment

(1)

The Minister of Fisheries has appointed David Higgins for a further term as a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana.

(2)

The appointment—

(a)

took effect on 3 May 2018; and

(b)

expires at the end of 2 May 2023.

Dated at Wellington this 3rd day of August 2018.

Stuart Anderson, Director Fisheries Management,
on behalf of Minister of Fisheries.

Explanatory note

This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This notice is given under the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 (the regulations). It comes into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette and is revoked on 3 May 2023.

The notice relates to a customary food gathering area/rohe moana of the tangata whenua represented by Te Rūnanga o Moeraki. The area/rohe moana is the area from the mouth of the Waitaki River south to the mouth of the Shag River, extending seaward to the limit of the South Island fisheries waters, and inland to the boundaries defined for Te Rūnanga o Moeraki in the Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu (Declaration of Membership) Order 2001.

Notice is given of the reappointment of a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana. The Minister of Fisheries made the reappointment at the request of Te Rūnanga o Moeraki.

The powers of Tāngata Tiaki/Kaitiaki are set out in the regulations.

Issued under the authority of the Legislation Act 2012.

Date of notification in Gazette: 9 August 2018.

This notice is administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries.