Pursuant to Regulation 10 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, and acting under delegated authority, the Associate Minister for 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. 46) 2003.
(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) "customary food gathering" has the same meaning as defined in the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999.
(b) "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 the area/rohe moana.
(c) "area/rohe moana" means the area/rohe moana between the Pareora River and Whakatu, just north of the Hakatere/Ashburton River, from Te Tiritiri
o Te Moana to Te Moana Nui a Kiwa extending seaward to the limit of the South Island fisheries waters as defined under Regulation 2 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations
1999, and inland to the boundaries defined for
Te Runanga o Arowhenua in the First Schedule of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996.
3. Cancellation of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-Te Runaka
o Arowhenua, being the Tangata Whenua who nominated Freda Daphne Brown, Elizabeth A. Stevenson, Yvonne Enoka, Rosina Hix, John P. Brooking and Ernest Arved Heta Johnston 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 Freda Daphne Brown, Elizabeth A. Stevenson, Yvonne Enoka, Rosina
Hix, John P. Brooking and Ernest Arved Heta Johnston as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki.
4. Cancellation of Appointment-The Associate Minister for Fisheries hereby confirms the cancellation of Freda Daphne Brown, Elizabeth A Stevenson, Yvonne Enoka, Rosina Hix, John P. Brooking and Ernest Arved Heta Johnston as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food gathering for the area/rohe moana.
5. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-Te Runaka o Arowhenua, being the Tangata Whenua holding manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana, have nominated Awatea Edwin, Karl Russell, Ben Reihana and Kevin Russell-Reihana as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana.
6. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-The Associate Minister for Fisheries hereby confirms the appointment of Awatea Edwin, Karl Russell, Ben Reihana, and Kevin Russell-Reihana 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 7th day of October 2003.
PAREKURA HOROMIA, Associate Minister of Fisheries.