National Parks Act 1980

National parks - Establishment, exclusion of land from, and definition of parks

11: Exclusion of land from national park

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"How to take land out of a national park"

You can only remove land or foreshore from a national park through an Act of Parliament. This means that only the New Zealand Parliament can decide to take an area out of a national park.

If land or foreshore is taken out of a national park, any special rules or conditions that applied to that area because it was part of the park no longer apply. The Act of Parliament that removes the land or foreshore from the park will say what should happen to that area next.

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10: Park land administered under certain other Acts, or

"Some parts of national parks are run under a different law"

12: Specially protected areas in national parks, or

"Some parts of national parks can be made extra special to protect them"

Part 1National parks
Establishment, exclusion of land from, and definition of parks

11Exclusion of land from national park

No area of land or foreshore included in any park shall be excluded from that park, except by Act of Parliament.
The exclusion of any land or foreshore from a park shall, without more, have the effect of cancelling any reservation relating to the holding of that land or foreshore for any particular or general purpose or subject to any condition, and the land or foreshore shall thereupon be disposed of in the manner specified in that Act.

Notes

Section 11(2): amended, on 25 November 1994, by section 4(1) of the National Parks Amendment Act 1994 (1994 No 112).