Pursuant to Regulation 22 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Acting Deputy Director-General Maori Primary Sector Partnerships at the Ministry for Primary Industries (acting pursuant to a delegated authority in accordance with section 41 of the State Sector Act 1988) gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Notice (No. 17) 2013.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on 10 October 2013.
2. Interpretation-(1) In this notice, "mataitai reserve" means the mataitai reserve at Waikawa Harbour notified in the Fisheries (Declaration of Mataitai Reserve at Waikawa Harbour/Tumu Toka and Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki) Notice 2008 (No. F458) (New Zealand Gazette, 11 September 2008, No. 138, page 3758).
(2) Other terms used in this notice have the same meaning
as in the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999.
3. Nomination of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-Te Runaka o Awarua, representing the whanau and hapu of Ngai Tahu Whanui holding manawhenua manamoana over the mataitai reserve (as represented by Te Runanga o Ngai Tahu),
has nominated Stephanie Blair, Vincent Leith and Gail
Thompson as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary
food-gathering within the mataitai reserve for further
five-year terms.
4. Appointment of Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki-(1) On
18 September 2013, the Minister for Primary Industries appointed, under Regulation 22(3) of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, Stephanie Blair, Vincent Leith and Gail Thompson as Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for managing customary food-gathering within the mataitai reserve.
(2) The appointments described in clause 4(1) will expire on 9 October 2018.
5. Power to authorise the taking of fisheries resources for customary food-gathering-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 food-gathering of fisheries resources may take place in the mataitai reserve without an authorisation from a Tangata Tiaki/Kaitiaki.
Dated at Wellington this 30th day of September 2013.
KELLY DUNN, Acting Deputy Director-General Maori Primary Sector Partnerships, Ministry for Primary Industries (acting under delegated authority).