Proposed amendment
Sarah Dowie, in Committee, to move the following amendment:
Clause 9
In clause 9, new section 26ZJA, after subsection (1), insert:
(1A)
If the Director-General declares an area on private property to be a spawning area, the Director-General must—
(a)
consult the property owner; and
(b)
provide for an appeal process, which must include a right for the property owner to be heard; and
(c)
give effect to the property owner’s right to justice under section 27 of the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.