Reserves Act 1977

Classification and management of reserves - General powers of Minister and of administering body

52: Union of reserves

You could also call this:

"The Minister can combine two or more reserves into one and choose a new name and group to manage it."

The Minister can decide to join two or more reserves together to make one reserve. You will see this decision in the Gazette, which is like a newspaper for official announcements. The Minister can choose a name for the new reserve, but first they need to check with the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa under section 27(2) or section 30 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008. If there is already a group in charge of one of the reserves, the Minister needs to get their okay before making the change. When the Minister joins the reserves together, they can also choose a new group to be in charge of the new reserve.

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51A: Introduction of biological control organisms, or

"Controlling pests in reserves with living things that help"

53: Powers (other than leasing) in respect of recreation reserves, or

"What the people in charge can do with a recreation reserve"

Part 3Classification and management of reserves
General powers of Minister and of administering body

52Union of reserves

The Minister may, in the case of reserves of the same classification, by notice in the Gazette, declare that any 2 or more reserves, or parts of 2 or more reserves, or parts of 1 or more reserves and the whole of 1 or more other reserves, shall, as from a date to be specified in that behalf in the notice, be united to form 1 reserve, with such name as he or she thinks fit:

provided that where there is an administering body or bodies of 1 or more of those reserves, the consent of the administering body or bodies shall first be obtained.
Before the Minister gives notice in the Gazette under subsection (1), the Minister must refer the proposed name to the New Zealand Geographic Board Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa under section 27(2) or 30 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008, as the case may be.
Where 2 or more reserves, or parts of 2 or more reserves, or parts of 1 or more reserves and the whole of 1 or more other reserves, have been so declared to be united as 1 reserve, the Minister may appoint an administering body to control the reserve, and thereupon the previous administering body or bodies (if any) shall cease to hold office as such, and the new administering body shall have in respect of the united reserve all the rights and liabilities of the several former administering bodies of the several reserves.

Compare

1953 No 69 ss 46, 48
1970 No 101 s 2(2)

Notes

Section 52(1A): inserted, on 1 November 2008, by section 38 of the New Zealand Geographic Board (Ngā Pou Taunaha o Aotearoa) Act 2008 (2008 No 30).