Pursuant to Regulation 9 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Director Maori Partnership Implementation at the Ministry for Primary Industries (acting pursuant to a delegated authority in accordance with section 41 of the State Sector Act 1988) 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. 3) 2012.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 14 September 2012.
2. Interpretation-(1) In this notice:
"area/rohe moana" means the area described in clause 4.
(2) Terms used in this notice have the same meaning as in the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-Te Runanga
o Arowhenua, representing the whanau and hapu of
Ngai Tahu Whanui holding manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana (as represented by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu), has nominated Tairoa Benson, Craig Fowler, Brett Harris, Richard Hopkinson, Mokai Reihana, Rangi Timothy, Sula Timothy, Christine Todd and Dick Weastell as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the area/rohe moana described in clause 4.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-On
3 September 2012, the Minister for Primary Industries confirmed, under Regulation 9(1) of the Fisheries
(South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the appointment of Tairoa Benson, Craig Fowler, Brett Harris, Richard Hopkinson, Mokai Reihana, Rangi Timothy,
Sula Timothy, Christine Todd and Dick Weastell as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering in
the area/rohe moana from the Pareora River to Whakatu (north of the Hakatere River), extending seaward to the limit of the South Island fisheries waters, being the 200-mile limit, and inland to boundaries defined for Te Runanga o Arowhenua in Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu (Declaration Membership) Order 2001. The appointments, for five-year terms, will expire on 13 September 2017.
5. Power to authorise the taking of fisheries resources for customary food gathering-Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki may authorise any individual to take fisheries resources, managed under the Fisheries Act 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 an authorisation from a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki.
Dated at Wellington this 10th day of September 2012.
KELLY DUNN, Director Maori Partnership Implementation, Ministry for Primary Industries.