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Hawksbury Lagoon Wildlife Refuge Order, 1974

Made 1974 · Text as of 2026-10-01

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Language
English
Kind
Regulation
Organisation
European Union
Country
New Zealand
Subjects
Wild species and ecosystems
Keywords
protected area, management/conservation

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  1. Reprint 3 September 2009 Hawksbury Lagoon Wildlife Refuge Order 1974 (SR 1974/28) Note This proclamation is administered in the Department of Internal Affairs. PURSUANT to 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, and 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 Otago land district-Waikouaiti County Schedule 2 1 Title and commencement • (1) This proclamation may be cited as the Hawksbury Lagoon Wildlife Refuge Order 1974. (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 Schedule 1 to this proclamation (hereinafter referred to as the refuge) is hereby declared to be a wildlife refuge for the purposes 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 a boat in the refuge during any open season for waterfowl which the Minister of Internal Affairs may from time to time declare in the Otago Acclimatisation District. 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) The proclamation made on the 11th day of May 19571, declaring the area described in Schedule 2 to this proclamation to be a wildlife refuge for the purposes of the Wildlife Act 1953: o (b) The proclamation made on the 2nd day of August 19572, prohibiting the use of boats in the area described in Schedule 2 to this proclamation. Schedule 1 Otago land district-Waikouaiti County PART Section 26, Block VI, Hawksbury Survey District; as more particularly shown on a plan marked I. A. Wil 34/13/4 deposited in the Head Office, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, and thereon edged red. Schedule 2 ALL that area situated in the Borough of Waikouaiti bounded by a line commencing at the junction of the north-western corner of Section 1, Block 76, Town of Hawksbury, and the eastern boundary of the Hawksbury Lagoon; thence generally southerly, north-easterly, south-westerly, and south-easterly along the eastern shore of the said lagoon and the southern boundary of Section 1, Block 74, Town of Hawksbury, to the South Pacific Ocean; thence generally south-westerly along the mean high-water mark of the Pacific Ocean to its junction with the production of the south-western boundary of original Section 8, Block VI, Hawksbury Survey District; thence north-westerly and north-easterly to and along the south-western and north-western boundaries of Section 8 aforesaid to its junction with Beach Street; thence across Beach Street to the southernmost corner of Lot 4, DP 7612; thence north-easterly along the southern boundaries of said Lot 4 and Lot 4, Deeds Plan 413, to the western shore of the Hawksbury Lagoon; thence generally northerly along that shore to its junction with railway land adjoining Section 13, Block XIV, Town of Hawksbury; thence northeasterly along the south-western boundary of the said railway land to its junction with an unnamed road; thence south-easterly along the southern boundary of that road to the point of commencement. As the same is shown on plan marked IA 52/348 deposited in the Head Office, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, and thereon edged red. Issued under the authority of the Regulations Act 1936. Date of notification in Gazette: 21 February 1974. • 1 Gazette, No 38, 16 May 1957, p 825 • 2 Gazette, No 58, 8 August 1957, p 1452 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1974/0028/latest/whole.html#DLM42022#DLM42022 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1974/0028/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM276813#DLM276813 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1974/0028/latest/whole.html#DLM42023#DLM42023

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