Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Notice Declaring Removal and Addition of Aquaculture Settlement Areas in Lucas Bay (South), Akaroa Harbour (Canterbury Region) for the Purposes of the Māori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004 (Notice No. MPI 533)

Pursuant to section 12 of the Māori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004 (“the Act”), the Minister for Primary Industries gives the following notice.

N o t i c e

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited as Notice Declaring Removal and Addition of Aquaculture Settlement Areas in Lucas Bay (South), Akaroa Harbour (Canterbury Region) for the Purposes of the Māori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004.

(2) This notice comes into force on the day after it is gazetted.

2. Removal of existing areas Gazetted for settlement purposes—Under section 12(2)(a) of the Māori Commercial Aquaculture Claims Settlement Act 2004, the Minister for Primary Industries declares that the whole of the existing Aquaculture Settlement Area in Lucas Bay (South), Akaroa Harbour, created by the New Zealand Gazette notice set out below, is removed as an Aquaculture Settlement Area:

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New Zealand Gazette publication date

Reference Number

Lucas Bay (South), Akaroa Harbour

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18 October 2012

MPI No. 43


3. New areas declared for settlement purposes
—Under section 12(1) of the Act, the Minister for Primary Industries declares two new Aquaculture Settlement Areas in Lucas Bay, Akaroa Harbour. The boundaries of the two new Aquaculture Settlement Areas are represented by the coordinates set out below:

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Coordinates

(1) Lucas Bay (North), Akaroa Harbour

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The area enclosed by a line:

  1. commencing at a point offshore (at 43°52.354'S and 172°55.548'E); then
  2. proceeding in a north-easterly direction to a point offshore (at 43°52.293'S and 172°55.641'E); then
  3. proceeding in a south-easterly direction to a point offshore (at 43°52.497'S and 172°55.831'E); then
  4. proceeding in a south-westerly direction to a point offshore (at 43°52.557'S and 172°55.738'E); then
  5. proceeding in a north-westerly direction to the point of commencement.

(2) Lucas Bay (South), Akaroa Harbour

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The area enclosed by a line:

  1. commencing at a point offshore (at 43°52.574'S and 172°55.822'E); then
  2. proceeding in a north-easterly direction to a point offshore (at 43°52.487'S and 172°55.853'E); then
  3. proceeding in a south-easterly direction to a point offshore (at 43°52.578'S and 172°56.168'E); then
  4. proceeding in a south-westerly direction to a point offshore (at 43°52.665'S and 172°56.137'E); then
  5. proceeding in a north-westerly direction to the point of commencement.


Dated at Wellington this 12th day of October 2015.

Hon NATHAN GUY, Minister for Primary Industries.