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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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The law on public access along water margins

Published by the Land Access Ministerial Reference Group, August 2003

Table of Contents

• Full Document (PDF 644KB)

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• Author/Disclaimer/Contents (PDF 18KB)
• The Law on Public Access Along Water Margins (PDF 38KB)
• Provincial Government (PDF 47KB)
• Reserves Along Privately-Owned Water Boundaries (PDF 20KB)
• Maori Land - A Category of Its Own (PDF 24KB)
• The Queen's Chain at a Glance (PDF 54KB)
• Appendix 1 - No Queen's Chain - Article by Huhana Smith (PDF 706KB)
• Appendix 2 - Colonisation on New Zealand: Extract from Queens' Instructions of 5 December 1840 (PDF 17KB)
• Appendix 3 - Extracted from "The New Zealand Book of Events" Reed and Methuen at p275 (PDF 11KB)
• Appendix 4 - New South Wales Act, 4 Vict., No. 7, Repealed (PDF 11KB)
• Appendix 5 - Extract of a DESPATCH from Lord John Russell to Governor Hobson (PDF 15KB)
• Appendix 6 - Grant 2 Bishop Pompallier (PDF 10KB)
• Appendix 7 - Title of Ordinances and Statutes (PDF 11KB)
• Appendix 8 - Land Act 1877 (PDF 13KB)
• Appendix 9 - Land Act 1908 (PDF 9KB)
• Appendix 10 - Conservation Act 1987 / [Part 4A - Marginal Strips / [24 Marginal strips reserved (PDF 44KB)
• Appendix 11 - Land Subdivision in Counties Act 1946 (PDF 9KB
• Appendix 12 - Counties Amendment Act 1961 (PDF 13KB)
• Appendix 13 - Local Government Amendment Act 1978 - (inserting new sections in the Local Government Act 1974) (PDF 16KB)
• Appendix 14 - Resource Management Act 1991 / Part 10 - Subdivision and reclamations / Esplanade reserves / [229 Purposes of esplanade reserves and esplanade strips (PDF 49KB)
• Appendix 15 - Extract from Introduction to the Native Land Act, 1909, by Sir John Salmond (PDF 27KB)
• Appendix 16 - Second Schedule Public Reserves and Domains Act 1908 (incorporating amendments by s4 Public Reserves and Domains Amendment Act 1914) (PDF 12KB)