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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: Analysis of Written Submissions

Published March 2007

The Walking Access Consultation Panel received almost 1400 submissions in response to its consultation document about walking access to New Zealand’s lakes, rivers, coastline and other public land. This summary of submissions has been prepared according to the chapter headings and questions in the consultation document. It provides an overview of submitters’ opinions, not a critique of submissions. The analysis focuses on representing the full range of views expressed by submitters rather than on the numbers of submitters with a particular view.

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• Foreword
• Summary
• 1 Background
• 2 Aim
• 3 Principles
• 4 Information about existing access
• 5 Signposting
• 6 Code of responsible conduct
• 7 Access agency
• 8 Dispute resolution
• 9 Property rights
• 10 Realignment of displaced water margin access
• 11 Gaps in water margin access
• 12 Negotiated access
• 13 Resource Management Act 1991
• 14 Access to water margins and other public land
• 15 Priorities
• 16 Unformed legal roads
• 17 Health and safety liability of landholders
• 18 Fire risk and liability
• 19 Biosecurity risks
• 20 Rural crime and security
• 21 Treaty of Waitangi concerns, access rights to Māori land, and wāhi tapu and rāhui
• 22 Additional matters
• Glossary
• References