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Fisheries Act 1996

Taiapure-local fisheries and customary fishing

175: Declaration of taiapure-local fisheries

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"Special fishing areas in New Zealand's waters can be declared to protect them."

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The Governor-General can declare some areas of New Zealand's fisheries waters to be taiapure-local fisheries. You can find these areas in estuarine waters or littoral coastal waters. The Governor-General makes this declaration using an Order in Council, but must follow the rules in section 176.

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Part 9Taiapure-local fisheries and customary fishing

175Declaration of taiapure-local fisheries

  1. Subject to section 176, the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, declare any area of New Zealand fisheries waters (which waters are estuarine waters or littoral coastal waters) to be a taiapure-local fishery.

Compare
  • 1983 No 14 s 54B(1)
  • 1989 No 159 s 74