Wildlife Sanctuary (Aldermen Islands) Order, 1965

Wildlife Sanctuary (Aldermen Islands) Order 1965 (SR 1965/181) Note These regulations are administered in the Department of Internal Affairs. PURSUANT to the Wildlife Act 1953, I, Brigadier Sir Bernard Edward Fergusson, the Governor General of New Zealand, hereby proclaim as follows: Contents 1 • (1) This Proclamation may be cited as the Wildlife Sanctuary (Aldermen Islands) Order 1965. (2) This Proclamation shall come into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette. 2 • In this Proclamation, unless the context otherwise requires,— The Act means the Wildlife Act 1953 Director-General means the Director-General of Conservation Director-General: this definition was inserted, as from 1 April 1987, by section 65(3) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65). Sanctuary means the area described in the Schedule hereto. Secretary [Revoked] Secretary: this definition was revoked, as from 1 April 1987, by section 65(3) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65). 3 • The area described in the Schedule hereto is hereby declared to be a wildlife sanctuary for the purposes of the Act, subject to the conditions specified in clauses 4 to 6 of this Proclamation. 4 • No person shall enter the sanctuary except: o (a) The Maori owners whose names are recorded as such in the records of the Maori Land Court: o (b) Members of the Tawatawa, Whiritoa, and Waihi tribes for the purpose of exercising their rights under any permits issued for the taking of the young of the grey-faced petrel (Pterodroma macroptera) pursuant to the Grey-Faced Petrel (Northern Muttonbird) Notice 19641 or any notification by the Minister in substitution therefor: o (c) Rangers under the Act while in the lawful execution of their duty: o (d) Seafarers entering through stress of weather: o (e) Any other person authorised in writing by the Director-General. Regulation 4(e) was amended, as from 1 April 1987, by section 65(3) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65) by substituting the words “Director-General” for the word “Secretary”. http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1965/0181/latest/whole.html#DLM22352#DLM22352 5 • No person shall, except with the written authority of the Director-General, o (a) Hunt or kill, take for any purpose, molest, capture, disturb, harry, or worry any living creature in the sanctuary: Provided that members of the Tawatawa, Whiritoa, and Waihi tribes may hunt or kill the young of the grey-faced petrel (Pterodroma macroptera) pursuant to any such permit as aforesaid: o (b) Take, destroy, or disturb the eggs or spawn of any living creature in the sanctuary: o (c) Take for any purpose or interfere with vegetation of any description in the sanctuary: o (d) Introduce or liberate in the sanctuary any living creature or the eggs or spawn of any living creature: o (e) Introduce or plant in the sanctuary any vegetation of any description or the spores or seeds of any vegetation of any description: o (f) Burn or clear by any means whatsoever any trees, shrubs, grasses, or other plant life on the sanctuary: o (g) Camp in the sanctuary: o (h) Light any fire or do anything likely to cause a fire on the sanctuary: o (i) Take any firearms or explosives on to the sanctuary or use any firearms or explosives in the sanctuary: o (j) Take or keep any domestic animal or domestic bird into or in the sanctuary. Regulation 5 was amended, as from 1 April 1987, by section 65(3) Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65) by substituting the words “Director-General” for the word “Secretary”. 6 • No person shall deposit rubbish or leave litter in the sanctuary. 7 • The Wildlife Sanctuary (Aldermen Islands) Order 19642 is hereby revoked. Schedule Aldermen Islands wildlife sanctuary ALL that group of islands and reefs situated in the North Auckland Land District and in the Bay of Plenty, known as the Aldermen Islands: Area, 330 acres, more or less. As delineated on the plan marked 46/29/13, deposited in the Head Office, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, and thereon coloured red (S.O. Plan 34773); together with the foreshore of those islands and reefs, being such parts of the bed of the sea as are covered and uncovered by the flow and ebb of the tide at ordinary spring tides. GOD SAVE THE QUEEN! Issued under the authority of the Regulations Act 1936. Date of notification in Gazette: 4 November 1965. • 1 SR 1964/176 • 2 SR 1965/6 http://www.legislation.govt.nz/regulation/public/1965/0181/latest/whole.html#DLM22358#DLM22358