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National Parks Act 1980

Financial provisions

59: Local authorities may make contributions for national park purposes

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"Councils can give money to help national parks"

Local councils in New Zealand can use their money to help with national parks. They can give money to the government to buy land for new national parks or to make existing parks better. This is true even if the national park is not in the local council's area. The money can be used to buy land, look after the park, or make improvements to the park.

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Part 6Financial provisions

59Local authorities may make contributions for national park purposes

  1. Any local authority may from time to time make contributions out of its general fund or account towards the cost of acquisition by the Crown of any land or interest in land for national park purposes or for the management, improvement, and maintenance of any national park, or of any part of a national park, notwithstanding that the national park may be situated outside the district of that local authority.