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Freedom Camping Act 2011

Enforcement, miscellaneous, and transitional provisions - Enforcement officers

33A: Appointment of enforcement officers by chief executive or commissioner

You could also call this:

“Bosses can pick people to enforce camping rules”

The chief executive or the commissioner can choose people to be enforcement officers for this Act. They must give these officers written warrants. The warrants tell the officers what they can do and what they are responsible for. The warrants also say which specific offences the officers can deal with. The warrants list the areas where the officers can work. These areas include LINZ land, local authority areas (but only if the local authority agrees), and conservation land (but only if the Director-General agrees). The warrants explain all of this information clearly to the enforcement officers.

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Part 3 Enforcement, miscellaneous, and transitional provisions
Enforcement officers

33AAppointment of enforcement officers by chief executive or commissioner

  1. The chief executive or the commissioner may appoint persons to be enforcement officers for the purposes of this Act.

  2. The chief executive or the commissioner, as applicable, must issue warrants in writing to enforcement officers appointed under this section specifying—

  3. the responsibilities and powers given to them; and
    1. the infringement offences and other offences in relation to which they are appointed; and
      1. the LINZ land in relation to which they may act; and
        1. the local authority areas in relation to which they may act (which are only areas in respect of which the relevant local authority has consented to officers exercising enforcement powers); and
          1. the conservation land in relation to which they may act (which is only land in respect of which the Director-General has consented to officers exercising enforcement powers).

            Notes
            • Section 33A: inserted, on , by section 30 of the Self-contained Motor Vehicles Legislation Act 2023 (2023 No 24).