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What is a Foreshore and Seabed Reserve?
A foreshore and seabed reserve is an area set apart by the High Court as a reserve. The purpose of a foreshore and seabed reserve is to acknowledge the exercise of kaitiakitanga (guardianship) by a group over the area. The reserve is held f... Read More »
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Who owns the Foreshore and Seabed?
The new Act vests the ownership of the foreshore and seabed in the Crown. Read More »
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Who will have title to the foreshore and seabed?
Existing private titles will stand. That is why the Bill refers to ‘public foreshore and seabed’ to distinguish between those areas already in private ownership and the remaining area will be vested in the Crown. Any crown owned foreshore a... Read More »
Source: http://www.greens.org.nz/factsheets/foreshore-and-seabed-faqs
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What Is the Foreshore and Seabed
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The foreshore is the area between the low and high water marks; The seabed is the soil underneath the sea beyond the low water mark. For New Zealand, the seabed potentially includes: - The soil and subsoil from the high tide line to the 12 ...
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Source: http://www.greens.org.nz/factsheets/foreshore-and-seabed-faqs
It is not just the beaches as the government keeps saying. Horizontally it is the distance between the average spring high tide waterline and the 12 nautical mile territorial limit. Included are the beds of rivers that belong to the coastal...
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Source: http://www.nzcpr.com/CoastalCoalitionArticles.htm
The Crown on behalf of all New Zealanders with the exception of historically established private titles.
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Source: http://www.nzcpr.com/CoastalCoalitionArticles.htm
The group and representatives from the local council and the Crown must agree on a board and a charter to administer the reserve. Functions of the board include the development of a management plan for the area. The local council must the...
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The Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 vested the ownership of the public foreshore and seabed in the Crown (excluding those parts of the foreshore and seabed held in private title). This vesting extinguished any uninvestigated customary title (...
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Source: http://www.beehive.govt.nz/release/foreshore-and-seabed-consultat...
The key objects of the 2004 Act were to: vest public foreshore and seabed in the Crown; protect public rights of access and navigation; abolish the jurisdiction of the High Court and Mäori Land Court to investigate Mäori claims to the fore...
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Source: http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/ntru/nativetitleconference/conf2010/Abs...
