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The Law on Public Access along Water Margins

Table of Contents

• PDF version
• The Author
• Disclaimer
• The Law on Public Access along Water Margins
• Preface
• Assumptions – Maori Land
• Historical Perspective – Margins Set Out on Crown Land
• Introductory
• Pre 1840
• Post 1840 – Including the Period of Provincial Government 1854-1876
• Provincial Government
  • The Foreshore
  • Water Boundaries
  • Post Provincial Government 1876-1892
  • The Early Land Acts
  • Land Act 1892 – The Law Applying for the Next 56 years
  • Land Act 1948
  • Land Act 1948
  • The Conservation Act
• Reserves Along Privately-Owned Water Boundaries
  • The Land Subdivision in Counties Act 1946
  • Municipalities
  • Counties Amendment Act 1961
  • The Local Government Act 1974
  • The Resource Management Act 1991
• Maori Land - A Category of Its Own
• The Queen's Chain at a Glance
  • Margins Vested on Crown Alienation
  • Margins Regained on Subdivision
• List of Legislation Applying to the Alienation of Crown Land
  • 1849-1892
  • Legislation by the Provinces 1854-1876
    • Province of Auckland
    • Province of Hawke's Bay
    • Province of Taranaki
    • Province of Wellington
    • Province of Marlborough
    • Province of Nelson
    • Province of Westland
    • Province of Canterbury
    • Province of Otago
    • Province of Southland
  • Conclusion
• Appendix 1 - No Queen's Chain - Article by Huhana Smith
• Appendix 2 - Colonisation on New Zealand: Extract from Queens' Instructions of 5 December 1840
• Appendix 3 - Extracted from "The New Zealand Book of Events" Reed and Methuen at p275
• Appendix 4 - New South Wales Act, 4 Vict., No. 7, Repealed
• Appendix 5 - Extract of a DESPATCH from Lord John Russell to Governor Hobson
• Appendix 6 - Grant 2 Bishop Pompallier
• Appendix 7 - Title of Ordinances and Statutes
• Appendix 8 - Land Act 1877
• Appendix 9 - Land Act 1908
• Appendix 10 - Conservation Act 1987 / [Part 4A - Marginal Strips / [24 Marginal strips reserved
• Appendix 11 - Land Subdivision in Counties Act 1946
• Appendix 12 - Counties Amendment Act 1961
• Appendix 13 - Local Government Amendment Act 1978 - (inserting new sections in the Local Government Act 1974)
• Appendix 14 - Resource Management Act 1991 / Part 10 - Subdivision and reclamations / Esplanade reserves / [229 Purposes of esplanade reserves and esplanade strips
• Appendix 15 - Extract from Introduction to the Native Land Act, 1909, by Sir John Salmond
• Appendix 16 - Second Schedule Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908 (incorporating amendments by s4 Public Reserves and Domains Amendment Act 1914)

Contact for Enquiries

Mark Neeson
Manager, Land and Water Policy
Pastoral House
25 The Terrace
PO Box 2526, Wellington

Phone: +64 894 0703
Fax: +64 4 894 0745

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