New Zealand Acts

TE UREWERA ACT 2014

- As at 5 April 2025
- Act 51 of 2014

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   1.      Title
   2.      Commencement

   PART 1 - Te Urewera

           SUBPART 1 - Background, purpose, and principles

   3.      Background to this Act
   4.      Purpose of this Act
   5.      Principles for implementing this Act

           SUBPART 2 - Interpretation and other matters

   6.      Interpretation generally
   7.      Interpretation
   8.      Provisions to take effect on settlement date
   9.      Act binds the Crown
   10.     Outline

           SUBPART 3 - Legal identity of Te Urewera and vesting of Te Urewera land

   11.     Te Urewera declared to be legal entity
   12.     Vesting of Te Urewera establishment land
   13.     Te Urewera land inalienable
   14.     National Parks Act 1980 amended
   15.     Public Finance Act 1989 amended

   PART 2 - Governance and management of Te Urewera

           SUBPART 1 - Te Urewera Board

   16.     Board established
   17.     Purposes of Board
   18.     Functions of Board
   19.     General powers of Board
   20.     Decision making affecting relationship of iwi and hapū with Te Urewera
   21.     Appointment of members of Board
   22.     Disqualification
   23.     Declaration required as condition of appointment
   24.     Chair
   25.     Deputy chair
   26.     First and subsequent terms of Board
   27.     Term for which members appointed
   28.     Removal of member
   29.     Vacancies
   30.     Liability of members
   31.     Obligations of members of Board in decision making
   32.     Role of chair in decision making
   33.     Unanimous decisions
   34.     Consensus decisions
   35.     Mediation
   36.     Decision by voting
   37.     Decisions by committee
   38.     Budget of Board
   39.     Revenue
   40.     Tax treatment of Te Urewera and Board
   41.     Other statutory powers not affected
   42.     Application of certain Acts
   43.     Application of Resource Management Act 1991

           SUBPART 2 - Te Urewera management plan

   44.     Obligation on Board to prepare and approve management plan for Te Urewera
   45.     Purpose of Te Urewera management plan
   46.     Contents of Te Urewera management plan
   47.     Relationship between management plan and conservation planning documents
   48.     Review and amendment of management plan
   49.     Transitional provision

           SUBPART 3 - Operational management of Te Urewera

   50.     Responsibilities of chief executive and Director-General
   51.     Board's statement of priorities
   52.     Powers and obligations
   53.     Annual operational plan
   54.     Kaimahi

           SUBPART 4 - Authorisation of certain activities in Te Urewera

   55.     Categories of activity
   56.     Activities for which no authorisation required
   57.     Requirements applying to authorisations
   58.     Activities requiring activity permit
   59.     Process for determining applications for activity permits
   60.     Application of Wildlife Act 1953
   61.     Relationship with Fish and Game Council
   62.     Activities requiring concessions
   63.     Introduction of biological control organisms
   64.     Crown Minerals Act 1991

           SUBPART 5 - Review of governance and management of Te Urewera

   65.     Independent review to be undertaken
   66.     Appointment of reviewer or review panel
   67.     Obligations of reviewer
   68.     Response on review report
   69.     Costs

           SUBPART 6 - Bylaws, compliance and enforcement, offences, penalties, and other matters

   70.     Board may make bylaws
   71.     Compliance and enforcement policy and training
   72.     Warranting
   73.     Powers of warranted officers
   74.     Constables
   75.     Warrants under other legislation
   76.     Offences in Te Urewera
   77.     Offences against warranted officers
   78.     Penalties for specified offences
   79.     Penalties not otherwise prescribed
   80.     Penalties for offences committed for commercial gain
   81.     Proceedings in respect of offences
   82.     Limitation period for filing charging document
   83.     Presumptions relating to offences
   84.     Control of dogs
   85.     Dog control permits
   86.     Offences in relation to dogs
   87.     Board to receive fines

   PART 3 - Te Urewera land and related matters

   88.     Interpretation

           SUBPART 1 - Provisions for registration and other matters relating to Te Urewera land

   89.     Registration of Te Urewera establishment land in Te Urewera
   90.     Resumptive memorials to be cancelled
   91.     Interests of registered proprietors of adjacent land not affected
   92.     Existing interests to continue
   93.     Application of other enactments
   94.     Official geographic names discontinued
   95.     Ownership of improvements
   96.     Certain liabilities excluded
   97.     Costs of meeting any liability
   98.     Easement over former Kainaha historic reserve
   99.     Waikaremoana easements

           SUBPART 2 - Land added to, or removed from, Te Urewera or interests acquired

   100.    Land added to Te Urewera
   101.    Criteria for adding land
   102.    Other interests may be acquired
   103.    Relevant considerations for determining whether land may be added or interests acquired
   104.    Proposal to add private land to Te Urewera
   105.    Minister's obligations
   106.    Board's obligations
   107.    Minister's obligations
   108.    Registration of land added to Te Urewera
   109.    Stopping certain unformed roads adjoining Te Urewera land
   110.    Registration of land added to Te Urewera if road stopped
   111.    Circumstances when land may be removed from Te Urewera
   112.    Registration after land removed from Te Urewera

           SUBPART 3 - Powers to establish special areas and to enter into covenants

   113.    Recommendation to establish special areas in Te Urewera
   114.    Criteria for recommendations to establish special areas
   115.    Determination of recommendation to establish special areas
   116.    Management of areas established under this subpart
   117.    Minister may propose establishing specially protected area
   118.    Authorisation of activities in specially protected areas
   119.    Restrictions on activities in wilderness areas
   120.    Criteria for authorising activities in wilderness areas
   121.    Limitation on purpose and principles
   122.    Board may enter into covenants
   123.    Scope of covenants
   124.    Compliance and enforcement
   125.    Legal effect and registration of covenant

           SUBPART 4 - Provisions relating to certain parts of Te Urewera

   126.    Ruakituri Wilderness Area
   127.    Status of Te Whāiti changed
   128.    Status of Onepoto changed
   129.    Interpretation
   130.    Vesting of Tāwhiuau Maunga in name of Tangiharuru
   131.    Registration of Tāwhiuau Maunga in name of Tangiharuru
   132.    Role of trustees of Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Manawa
   133.    Management of Tāwhiuau area
   134.    Agreement between trustees of Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Manawa and Te Urewera Board
   135.    Application of other provisions
   136.    Agreement between trustees of Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Whare and Te Urewera Board
   137.    Interests of Ngāti Ruapani ki Waikaremoana in Waikaremoana area

           SUBPART 5 - Consequential amendments to other Acts

   138.    Amendment to other Acts
           SCHEDULE 1
           SCHEDULE 2
           SCHEDULE 3
           SCHEDULE 4
           SCHEDULE 5