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Conservation Act 1987

Specially protected areas

18: Minister may confer additional specific protection or preservation requirements

You could also call this:

“The Minister can give extra protection to special areas to help conserve them.”

The Minister can decide to give special protection to some land for conservation purposes. You might see this land being used for a conservation park, an ecological area, or another special purpose. The Minister will tell people about this decision by putting a notice in the Gazette.

When the Minister wants to make this decision, they will first give public notice of their intention. They have to follow the rules in section 49 when they do this. The public notice must include the proposed name for the park or area.

After people have a chance to give their thoughts on the proposal, the Minister will ask the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa to review the proposed name under section 27(3) of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008. The Board will follow the rules in sections 28 to 31 of that Act.

The area will be known by its official geographic name, which is the name that the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa decides on. If the land is being protected for a special scientific reason, the notice will say what that reason is.

The land will be managed in a way that is consistent with its purpose. The Minister can change or cancel the purpose of the land by putting another notice in the Gazette. Before they do this, they will give public notice of their intention and follow the rules in section 49.

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Part 4 Specially protected areas

18Minister may confer additional specific protection or preservation requirements

  1. Subject to subsections (2) to (4), the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette describing the land concerned, declare any land or interest in land, held under this Act for conservation purposes to be held for the purpose of a conservation park, an ecological area, for any other specified purpose or purposes, or for 2 or more of those purposes; and, subject to this Act, it shall thereafter so be held.

  2. The Minister shall give public notice of intention to give a notice under subsection (1); and section 49 shall apply accordingly.

  3. The public notice referred to in subsection (2) must specify the proposed name for the proposed park or area.

  4. After considering any submissions received in response to the public notice given under subsection (2), the Minister must refer the proposed name to the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa for review under section 27(3) of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008; and the provisions of sections 28 to 31 of that Act apply.

  5. The area for which a name is specified and determined under subsections (3) and (3A) must be known by its official geographic name.

  6. Where any land or interest is declared to be held for the purpose of an ecological area under subsection (1), the notice concerned shall specify the particular scientific value for which it is held.

  7. Every area held under this Act for 1 or more of the purposes described in subsection (1) shall be managed in a manner consistent with the purpose or purposes concerned.

  8. Nothing in sections 19 to 24 limits the generality of subsection (5).

  9. Subject to subsection (8), the Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, vary or revoke the purpose, or all or any of the purposes, for which any land or interest held under subsection (1) is held; and it shall thereafter be held accordingly.

  10. Before varying or revoking any purpose under subsection (7), the Minister shall give public notice of intention to do so; and section 49 shall apply accordingly.

Notes
  • Section 18(1): amended, on , by section 7 of the Conservation Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 15).
  • Section 18(3): substituted, on , by section 38 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 (2008 No 30).
  • Section 18(3A): inserted, on , by section 38 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 (2008 No 30).
  • Section 18(3B): inserted, on , by section 38 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 (2008 No 30).