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Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975

8G: Public notice

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"Telling the public about a land claim application"

When you make an application under section 8D, you must give public notice of the application. You do this by following the directions given by the Tribunal. The public notice is published in the Gazette and in newspapers that people in the area where the land is located can read.

The public notice must describe the land and where it is. It must also say that an application has been made under section 8D about the land. The notice invites Maori who think they have a claim to the land to submit it to the Tribunal before a certain date.

The notice must give details about any claims already made about the land. If no claims have been made, the notice says that if no one makes a claim before the date, the Tribunal might recommend that the land is no longer affected by certain rules. The notice includes other information that the Tribunal tells you to add.

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8GPublic notice

  1. Where an application is made under section 8D, the applicant shall, in addition to complying with the directions given under section 8F(4), give, in accordance with the directions of the Tribunal, public notice of the application.

  2. The public notice shall be published both—

  3. in the Gazette; and
    1. in such newspapers circulating in the district in which the land or interest in land is situated as the Tribunal directs.

      1. The public notice shall—

      2. describe the land or interest in land and its location; and
        1. state that an application has been made under section 8D in respect of the land or interest in land; and
          1. indicate that—as the case may be; and
            1. the land or interest in land has been or was transferred to a State enterprise under section 23 of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 or vested in a State enterprise by a notice in the Gazette under section 24 of that Act or by an Order in Council made under section 28 of that Act; or
              1. the land or interest in land has been or was transferred to an institution within the meaning of section 10(1) of the Education and Training Act 2020 under section 564 of that Act or vested in such an institution by an Order in Council made under section 572 of that Act—
              2. invite any Maori who considers that he or she, or any group of Maori of which he or she is a member, has grounds for a claim under section 6 in relation to the land or interest in land, to submit that claim to the Tribunal before a date specified in the notice (which date shall be not less than 90 days after the first or only publication of the notice in the Gazette ); and
                1. describe briefly any claims already submitted under section 6 in respect of the land or interest in land; and
                  1. where no claim has been submitted under section 6 in respect of the land or interest in land, state that if no claim in relation to the land or interest in land is submitted to the Tribunal under section 6 before the date specified in the notice, the Tribunal may recommend that the land or interest in land be no longer liable to resumption under section 27B of the State-Owned Enterprises Act 1986 or section 569 of the Education and Training Act 2020; and
                    1. contain such other information as the Tribunal directs.

                      Notes
                      • Section 8G: inserted (with effect on 9 December 1987), on , by section 4 of the Treaty of Waitangi (State Enterprises) Act 1988 (1988 No 105).
                      • Section 8G(3)(c): replaced, on , by section 12(3) of the State-Owned Enterprises Amendment Act 1992 (1992 No 27).
                      • Section 8G(3)(c)(ii): amended, on , by section 668 of the Education and Training Act 2020 (2020 No 38).
                      • Section 8G(3)(f): amended, on , by section 668 of the Education and Training Act 2020 (2020 No 38).
                      • Section 8G(3)(f): amended, on , pursuant to section 50(1) of the Education Amendment Act 1990 (1990 No 60).