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Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act 2025

Permits, enforcement, and regulations for protected areas - Regulations, review, and consequential amendments - Regulations

72: General regulations

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The Governor-General can make rules for the Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act 2025. You need to know that these rules can be about managing protected areas, like controlling who can access them. The rules can also be about keeping people safe in these areas and stopping damage to them. The Governor-General can also make rules about penalties for people who break the rules, like fines of up to $1,000. You can find out more about how these rules are published by looking at Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. Before the Minister recommends making new rules, they must make sure that people who will be affected by the rules have been consulted.

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Part 3Permits, enforcement, and regulations for protected areas
Regulations, review, and consequential amendments: Regulations

72General regulations

  1. The Governor-General may, by Order in Council made on the recommendation of the Minister, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

  2. providing for anything this Act says may or must be provided for by regulations:
    1. providing for the management of protected areas, including (without limitation) regulating—
      1. access to protected areas:
        1. visitor effects on protected areas:
          1. anchoring within protected areas:
            1. health and safety matters within protected areas:
            2. prescribing penalties for infringement offences under this Act, which,—
              1. in the case of infringement fees, must not be more than $1,000; and
                1. in the case of maximum fines, must not be more than twice the amount of the infringement fee for the offence:
                2. prescribing offences for a breach of the regulations and maximum fines for those offences not exceeding $2,500:
                  1. prescribing infringement offences for a breach of the regulations and prescribing for those offences—
                    1. infringement fees, which must not be more than $1,000; and
                      1. maximum fines, which must not be more than twice the amount of the infringement fee for the offence:
                      2. providing for anything incidental that is necessary for carrying out, or giving full effect to, this Act.

                        1. Before recommending the making of regulations under subsection (1)(b), the Minister must be satisfied that, if consultation with any person affected by the proposed regulations is appropriate, sufficient consultation with that person or their representative has occurred.

                        2. Regulations made under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

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