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Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act 2025

Permits, enforcement, and regulations for protected areas - Regulations, review, and consequential amendments - Review of seafloor protection areas, high protection areas, and ring net fishing provisions

75: Ministerial review of seafloor protection areas and high protection areas

You could also call this:

"The Minister checks if seafloor and high protection areas are working well."

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You need to know that the Minister will review the seafloor protection areas and high protection areas. The Minister and the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fisheries Act 1996 will look at how well they are working. They will check the seafloor protection areas declared under section 16 and the high protection areas declared under section 20. You will have a chance to give your thoughts on the seafloor protection areas and high protection areas. The Ministers must make sure people can make submissions on how well these areas are working. This includes iwi that take care of any protected area being reviewed. The Ministers will write a report on the review and give it to the House of Representatives. They must do this within 2 years of starting the review. The review will happen every 25 years, and also at any other time the Ministers think is necessary. The first review will happen within 25 years of the Act starting.

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Part 3Permits, enforcement, and regulations for protected areas
Regulations, review, and consequential amendments: Review of seafloor protection areas, high protection areas, and ring net fishing provisions

75Ministerial review of seafloor protection areas and high protection areas

  1. The Minister and the Minister responsible for the administration of the Fisheries Act 1996 must review the operation, effectiveness, and management of each of the following that are in place at the time of the review:

  2. the seafloor protection areas declared under section 16:
    1. the high protection areas declared under section 20.

      1. A review must be initiated—

      2. before the expiry of 25 years after the commencement of this Act; and
        1. every 25 years after that; and
          1. at any other time that the Ministers consider appropriate.

            1. The Ministers must ensure that, as part of the review, there is reasonable opportunity for interested persons (including iwi that exercise kaitiakitanga in any protected area subject to the review) to make submissions on the operation, effectiveness, and management of the seafloor protection areas and high protection areas specified in subsection (1).

            2. The Ministers must, within 2 years of the review being initiated,—

            3. prepare a report on the review; and
              1. present the report to the House of Representatives.