Pursuant to Regulation 10(3) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Programme Manager (Deed of Settlement Implementation Programme) at the Ministry of Fisheries (acting pursuant to a delegated authority in accordance with section 41 of the State Sector Act 1999) 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. F402) 2007.
(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 10 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 for the management of customary food gathering within an area/rohe moana.
(c) “area/rohe moana” means the area from Heywood Point to Blackhead, extending seaward to the limit of the South Island fisheries waters as defined in
the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, being the 200-mile limit; and inland to boundaries defined for Te Runanga o Otakou in the First Schedule of Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu Act 1996.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—Te Runanga o Otakou, being the tangata whenua who holds manawhenua manamoana over the area/rohe moana (as represented by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu), has nominated Ruth Cadman, Toni Evans and Eleanor Russell as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the area/rohe moana for five-year periods.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—On 26 March 2007, the Associate Minister of Fisheries confirmed the appointment of Ruth Cadman, Toni Evans and Eleanor Russell as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering in the area/rohe moana. The appointments are for five years commencing the day this notice comes into effect.
5. Power to authorise the taking of fisheries resources for customary food-gathering—The 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 Nelson this 3rd day of April 2007.
RAYMOND NECKLEN, Programme Manager (Deed
of Settlement Implementation Programme), Ministry of Fisheries.