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National Parks Act 1980

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

16: Plans of national parks

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"The Chief Surveyor keeps updated maps of national parks for you to see"

The Chief Surveyor has to make sure that up-to-date plans of national parks and special areas within them are available for you to see. You can look at these plans for free during normal office hours at the Chief Surveyor's office. The plans are also kept at the Director-General's office and at the offices of Chief Surveyors in areas where the park is located.

If any land is added to or taken away from a national park or its special areas, the Chief Surveyor has to update the plans. Every plan and change to a plan must be certified by the Chief Surveyor to show it's official.

If you want a copy of any of these plans, you can ask the Chief Surveyor for one. They have to give it to you if you ask.

These certified plans, or copies of them, are considered good evidence of the boundaries and size of the national park or special area. This means they're trusted to be correct unless someone can prove otherwise.

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

16Plans of national parks

  1. The Chief Surveyor shall ensure that a current plan of each national park that is wholly or partly within his land district and every specially protected area, wilderness area, and amenities area within that park is—

  2. available at his office for public inspection without fee during ordinary office hours; and
    1. deposited in the office of the Director-General and the office of the Chief Surveyor of every land district in which any part of the park is situated.

      1. Where any land is added to or excluded from any national park, specially protected area, wilderness area, or amenities area, the appropriate Chief Surveyor shall ensure that the plans required by subsection (1) are altered, replaced, or removed as the case may require.

      2. Every plan and every alteration to any plan shall be certified by the appropriate Chief Surveyor.

      3. The Chief Surveyor shall supply to any person applying for it a copy of any plan required by subsection (1) to be available in his office for public inspection.

      4. Every plan of a national park or specially protected area, wilderness area, or amenities area certified by a Chief Surveyor, and every certified copy of any such plan shall, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be sufficient evidence of the boundaries and area comprising that national park, specially protected area, wilderness area, or amenities area.