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Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act 2025

Marine reserves, seafloor protection areas, and high protection areas - Seafloor protection areas and high protection areas - Activities to which prohibitions do not apply

26: Other activities to which prohibitions do not apply

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"What you can do in the Hauraki Gulf without breaking the rules"

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You do not have to follow some rules in the Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act 2025. These rules do not apply to activities like exercising protected customary rights under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011. You can also do things you have resource consent for under the Resource Management Act 1991. You can carry out activities under the Biosecurity Act 1993. Some activities are allowed without resource consent under regulations made under the Resource Management Act 1991. You can discharge stormwater if it is a permitted activity. You can do things the department says you can do under this Act. If you have an approval under other legislation, you can keep doing what you were doing. Local authorities can monitor or enforce plans, do research, or conserve the environment. The Minister of Defence can say what is necessary for national security. The New Zealand Defence Force can do training activities. You can put in, fix, or change submarine cables. You can take action in an emergency to keep people safe or protect the environment. You can respond to marine oil spills or other pollution. Some shipping is allowed if it follows the London Convention.

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Part 2Marine reserves, seafloor protection areas, and high protection areas
Seafloor protection areas and high protection areas: Activities to which prohibitions do not apply

26Other activities to which prohibitions do not apply

  1. The prohibitions in sections 17, 18, and 21 do not apply to—

  2. the exercise of protected customary rights or customary marine title rights under the Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011:
    1. any activity for which resource consent has been granted under the Resource Management Act 1991 at the time this Act commences, until the expiration of that consent:
      1. any activity carried out under the Biosecurity Act 1993:
        1. any activity that is expressly allowed, without obtaining resource consent, under regulations made under section 360(1)(a) and (ha) to (hh) of the Resource Management Act 1991 that relate to the regulation of marine pollution:
          1. the discharge of stormwater, if that discharge is a permitted activity for the purposes of the Resource Management Act 1991:
            1. any activity undertaken by the department in the performance of its functions under this Act:
              1. any activity for which, at the time this Act commences, an approval has been granted under any legislation administered by the department, until the expiration of that approval:
                1. any of the following activities undertaken by or on behalf of a local authority:
                  1. monitoring or enforcement of a regional coastal plan or resource consent:
                    1. any activity undertaken in relation to state of the environment reporting:
                      1. any activity undertaken in relation to scientific research or conservation:
                      2. any work or activity of the Crown that the Minister of Defence certifies is necessary for reasons of national security:
                        1. training activities undertaken by the New Zealand Defence Force:
                          1. the placement, maintenance, repair, alteration, or extension of a submarine cable:
                            1. any action necessary in an emergency relating to human safety or the protection of the environment:
                              1. any other action taken in response to marine oil spills or other pollution:
                                1. transit shipping that complies with the London Convention.