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Fisheries Act 1996

Taiapure-local fisheries and customary fishing

174: Object

You could also call this:

"Protecting special fishing areas important to Māori"

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The object of sections 175 to 185 is to make better provision for areas of New Zealand fisheries waters that are special to iwi or hapu. You can think of these areas as being important for food or for spiritual and cultural reasons. The goal is to recognise the rights of iwi and hapu, as secured in Article II of the Treaty of Waitangi, and to respect their rangatiratanga.

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Part 9Taiapure-local fisheries and customary fishing

174Object

  1. The object of sections 175 to 185 is to make, in relation to areas of New Zealand fisheries waters (being estuarine or littoral coastal waters) that have customarily been of special significance to any iwi or hapu either—

  2. as a source of food; or
    1. for spiritual or cultural reasons,—
        1. better provision for the recognition of rangatiratanga and of the right secured in relation to fisheries by Article II of the Treaty of Waitangi.

      Compare
      • 1983 No 14 s 54A
      • 1989 No 159 s 74