Pursuant to regulation 10 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Minister of Fisheries hereby gives the following notice.
N o t i c e
1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice
(No. 23) 2000.
(2) This notice shall come into effect the day after the date of its notification in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Interpretation-In this notice:
(a) The term "Customary food gathering" has the same meaning as defined in the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999.
(b) Any reference to "Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki" means the person or persons appointed under regulation 9 or 10 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for a general customary food gathering area/rohe moana and confirmed in clause 6 of this notice.
(c) Any reference to area/rohe moana means the area from Piopiotahi extending in a westerly direction to the limit of the South Island fisheries waters as defined under regulation 2 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, being the 200 mile limit; following the said limit until it meets the point where the limit, in an easterly direction from Tokata, is reached; thence inland to the boundaries defined for Te Runaka o Awarua, Oraka Aparima Runaka, Hokonui Runaka and Waihopai Runaka in the First Schedule of the
Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996, returning to the first mentioned point. The area/rohe moana includes South Island fisheries waters about and within Rakiura and other offshore islands situated within the 200 mile limit.
3. Cancellation of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-Waihopai Runaka, being the Tangata Whenua who nominated George Newton Te Au and David William McClutchie as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana under regulation 5 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, have requested in writing the cancellation of the appointment of George Newton Te Au and David William McClutchie as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki.
4. Cancellation of Appointment-The Minister of Fisheries hereby confirms the cancellation of George Newton Te Au and David William McClutchie as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food gathering for the area/rohe moana.
5. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-Waihopai Runaka, being the Tangata Whenua holding manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana, have nominated Cyril Raymond Gilroy and Jodi Shayne Cameron as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana.
6. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-The Minister of Fisheries hereby confirms the appointment of Cyril Raymond Gilroy and Jodi Shayne Cameron as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food gathering for the area/rohe moana. The appointment is for a term of five years commencing the day this notice comes into effect.
7. Power to authorise taking of fisheries resources for customary food gathering-The Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki may authorise any individual to take fisheries resources managed under the Fisheries Acts 1983 and 1996 for customary food gathering purposes from within the whole or any part of the area/rohe moana. No customary food gathering of fisheries resources may take place in the area/rohe moana without authorisation from the Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki.
Dated at Wellington this 8th day of September 2000.
PETE HODGSON, Minister of Fisheries.