Pursuant to Regulations 25 and 26 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Minister of Fisheries hereby gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement?(1) This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (Mataura River Mataitai Reserve Bylaws) Notice 2009.
(2) This notice shall come into effect 28 days after the date of its notification in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Interpretation?In this notice:
(a) The term “Mataura River Mataitai Reserve”
means the mataitai reserve at Mataura, Southland, notified in the Fisheries (Declaration of Mataitai Reserve at Mataura River and Appointment of
Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki) Notice 2005 (No. F329)
(New Zealand Gazette, 11 August 2005, No. 123, page 3010).
(b) Any reference to “Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki” means any person or persons appointed as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the Mataura River Mataitai Reserve under Regulation 21 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999.
(c) Unless the context requires otherwise, terms have the same meaning as defined in the Fisheries (Southland and Sub-Antarctic Areas Amateur Fishing) Regulations 1991, the Fisheries (Amateur Fishing) Regulations 1986, the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 and the Fisheries Act 1996.
3. Approval of bylaws for the Mataura River Mataitai Reserve—The Minister of Fisheries approves the following bylaws for Mataura River Mataitai Reserve:
(a) No person may:
(i) take any of the following species within the Mataura River Mataitai Reserve; or
(ii) possess any of the following species within that area; or
(iii) possess any of the following species taken from within that area:
Lamprey, Shortfin eel and Longfin eel.
(b) No person may use, set or possess any fyke net within the Mataura River Mataitai Reserve.
4. Fishing subject to these bylaws—Under Regulation 25(3) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, all fishing within the Mataura River Mataitai Reserve is subject to these bylaws.
5. Breach of bylaws is an offence—Under Regulation
43 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, a person commits an offence against those Regulations if the person breaches any of these bylaws.
Dated at Wellington this 30th day of June 2009.
HON PHIL HEATLEY, Minister of Fisheries.