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Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act 2000

Hauraki Gulf Marine Park

37: Effect of Park

You could also call this:

"Looking after the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park"

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You must respect the purpose of the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park if you own or manage land, foreshore, seabed, or special areas like marine reserves in the Park. This does not change how some areas are owned or managed, and it does not limit the powers of regional councils in the coastal marine area. You can find more information about how certain areas are managed by looking at the Conservation Act 1987 or other relevant Acts, such as those listed in Schedule 1 of that Act.

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Part 3Hauraki Gulf Marine Park

37Effect of Park

  1. Any person holding, controlling, or administering land, foreshore, seabed, a marine reserve, a high protection area, a seafloor protection area, a taiapure-local fishery, or a mataitai reserve in the Hauraki Gulf Marine Park must recognise and give effect to the purpose of the Park.

  2. Nothing in this Part—

  3. affects any land in the Hauraki Gulf, its islands, or coastal area, that is not expressly included in the Park in accordance with this Part:
    1. limits the ability of the Minister or an administering body to acquire conservation areas, reserves, wildlife refuges, wildlife sanctuaries, or marine reserves within the Gulf or the Park:
      1. changes the ownership or management of areas of land, foreshore, seabed, or the waters of the Gulf:
        1. limits the powers and functions of a regional council in the coastal marine area.

          1. Despite subsection (1), land included in the Park in accordance with section 33(2)(a), (b), (c), or (e) continues to be held, managed, or administered in accordance with the Conservation Act 1987, or any Act in Schedule 1 of that Act, if any of those Acts applies to that land.

          Notes
          • Section 37(1): amended, on , by section 78 of the Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act 2025 (2025 No 54).