Pursuant to Regulation 22 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Acting Customary Relationship 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 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. 15) 2009.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 3 December 2009.
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) “mataitai reserve” means the mataitai reserve at
Te Whaka a Te Wera (Paterson Inlet), Stewart Island, notified in the Fisheries (Declaration of Mataitai Reserve and Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki) Notice 2004 (No. F310) (New Zealand Gazette, 2 December 2004, No. 158, page 3921).
(c) “Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki” means any person or persons appointed as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the mataitai reserve under Regulation 21 or 22 of
the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—Te Runanga
o Awarua, being the tangata whenua holding manawhenua manamoana over the mataitai reserve (as represented by
Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu), has nominated Peter Godward Goomes, Maureen Winifred Okeroa Jones, Phillip John Smith and Richard Graham Squires for further terms as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the mataitai reserve.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki—On
28 October 2009, the Minister of Fisheries appointed, under Regulation 22(3) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, Peter Godward Goomes, Maureen Winifred Okeroa Jones, Phillip John Smith and Richard Graham Squires as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the mataitai reserve for further five-year periods. The appointments will expire on 2 December 2014.
5. Power to authorise the taking of fisheries resources for customary food-gathering—A 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 mataitai reserve. No customary fishing may take place in
the mataitai reserve without an authorisation from a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki.
Dated at Wellington this 17th day of November 2009.
JUDITH MACDONALD, Acting Customary Relationship Manager (Deed of Settlement Implementation Programme), Ministry of Fisheries.