Buller River Mouth Wildlife Refuge Order 1973

Buller River Mouth Wildlife Refuge Order 1973 (SR 1973/272) Note This Proclamation is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs. PURSUANT to section 14 of the Wildlife Act 1953, I, Sir Edward Denis Blundell, the Governor General of New Zealand, acting on the joint recommendation of the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Minister of Lands, and the Minister of Transport (being the Ministers charged with the administration of the Departments of State having the control of the land of the Crown affected by this Proclamation), hereby proclaim as follows: Contents 1 Title and commencement 2 Wildlife refuge declared 3 Use of boats 4 Revocations Schedule 1 Title and commencement • (1) This Proclamation may be cited as the Buller River Mouth Wildlife Refuge Order 1973. (2) This Proclamation shall come into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette. 2 Wildlife refuge declared • The area described in the Schedule to this Proclamation (hereinafter referred to as the refuge) is hereby declared to be a wildlife refuge for the purposes of section 14 of the Wildlife Act 1953. 3 Use of boats • Except with the prior written authority of the Director-General of Conservation and subject to compliance with any conditions that the Director-General may impose, no person shall use any boat in the refuge. Regulation 3 was amended, as from 1 April 1987, by section 65(3) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65) by substituting the words “Director-General of Conservation” and “Director General” for the words “Secretary for Internal Affairs” and “Secretary” respectively. 4 Revocations • The following Proclamations are hereby revoked: o (a) Proclamation made on the 11th day of May 1957 declaring the land described in the Schedule hereto to be a wildlife refuge1: o (b) Proclamation made on the 3rd day of September 1957 prohibiting the use of boats in the said refuge2. http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1973/0272/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM277234#DLM277234 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1973/0272/latest/whole.html#DLM41196#DLM41196 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1973/0272/latest/whole.html#DLM41197#DLM41197 Schedule ALL that area in the Nelson Land District, Buller County, containing by admeasurement 43.7060 hectares, more or less, comprising portion of the Western Lagoon, Section 231, Square 141, and adjacent islands, situated in Block II, Steeples Survey District, and bounded generally as follows: Commencing at a point on the mean high-water mark being the south-western corner of Section 225, Square 141; thence towards the north by the said Section 225, Section 224, Square 141, the road forming the boundaries of parts Section 17, Block II, and Section 60, Square 141, and by Crown land to a point in line with the production of a due south line from the south-eastern corner of the said Section 60, Square 141; thence due south by that line produced to the northern boundary of Section 61, Square 141, thence westerly and southerly by the said Section 61 to a point in line with the production of the road forming the south-eastern boundary of Section 222, Square 141, and by that line produced to the road forming the north-eastern boundary of the said Section 222; thence by that road, part Section 238, Square 141, Section 223, Square 141, again by part Section 238, Square 141, the abutment of a public road, Crown land, and the road forming the southeastern boundary of part Section 17, Block II, to the point of commencement. As the same is more particularly shown on a plan marked IA Wil 34/26/1 deposited in the Head Office, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, and thereon edged red. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! Issued under the authority of the Regulations Act 1936. Date of notification in Gazette: 15 November 1973.