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Biosecurity Act 1993

Preliminary

6: Land may include parts of boundary roads

You could also call this:

"Land next to a road can include the road's edge in its pest management plan"

When a pest management plan or a pathway management plan is made for land next to a road, the plan can say that the land includes parts of the road. This means the land includes the parts of the road between the land boundary and the middle of the road. You can do things on these parts of the road if the plan says you can.

If a plan says the land includes parts of the road, you are allowed to do things on those parts of the road if you are required or allowed to do them on the land. This is because the plan treats the parts of the road as part of the land. However, you are not allowed to damage the road.

You must not damage any road, even if a plan says you can do things on parts of the road. This rule is important to protect the roads. You can find more information about the Biosecurity Act 1993 and its amendments on the New Zealand legislation website.

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Part 1Preliminary

6Land may include parts of boundary roads

  1. Where a pest management plan or a pathway management plan applies to land adjoining a road, the plan may state that the land includes, for the purposes of the plan, all or any of the portions of road bounded by—

  2. the boundary of that land abutting that road; and
    1. lines extended from the end of that portion of boundary to the middle line of the road; and
      1. the middle line of the road connecting those extended lines.

        1. Any person required or authorised by or under a pest management plan or a pathway management plan to do anything on or in relation to land, when the plan provides that the land includes portions of road in accordance with subsection (1), is also required or authorised to do that thing on those portions of the road.

        2. Nothing in subsection (2) authorises any person to damage any road.

        Notes
        • Section 6: replaced, on , by section 3 of the Biosecurity Amendment Act 1997 (1997 No 89).
        • Section 6(1): amended, on , by section 9(1) of the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012 (2012 No 73).
        • Section 6(2): amended, on , by section 9(2) of the Biosecurity Law Reform Act 2012 (2012 No 73).