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  • Walking Access – Organisational structure, legislation and funding (cabinet paper)
  • Roading Law as it Applies to Unformed Roads – The Sequel
  • Report to the Minister of Rural Affairs
  • Analysis of written submissions
  • Roading law as it applies to unformed roads
  • Elements of the law on movable water boundaries
  • Consultation document
  • Summary document
  • Walking access in the New Zealand outdoors
  • The law on public access along water margins
  • Analysis of written submissions on the report: Walking access in the New Zealand outdoors
  • If visitors to my farm are injured, am I liable?
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Outdoor walking access: consultation document

Published April 2006

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Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
  • The consultation
  • Consultation process
  • Background to the consultation
• Aim for walking access to land
• Principles for walking access to land
  • Principles
• Issues on which landholders and users largely agree
  • Location and status of existing access rights to water margin land
  • Code of responsible conduct
  • National leadership and policy co-ordination
• Issues on which agreement needs to be sought
  • Refusal of access by landholders
  • Intersection of private and public property rights
  • Impact of erosion and accretion on water margin access
  • Establishing new access
  • Use of unformed legal roads
• Access-related issues that require clarification and evaluation
  • Health and safety liability of landholders
  • Fire risk and liability
  • Biosecurity risks
  • Rural crime and security
• Issues in respect of Maori land and Maori issues in respect of non-Maori land
  • Treaty of Waitangi concerns, access rights to Maori land, and wahi tapu and rahui
• Submission form (Word document)
• Appendix 1: List of abbreviations
• Appendix 2: Glossary
• Appendix 3: Walking access consultation terms of reference
• Appendix 4: Members of the Walking Access Consultation Panel
• Appendix 5: Possible organisational forms for an access agency
• Appendix 6: If visitors to my farm are injured, am I liable?