Notice Type
Departmental
Notice Title

Fisheries (Notification of Tāngata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for Te Waha-o-te-Marangai Mātaitai Reserve) Notice 2019 (MPI 1102)

Pursuant to Regulation 22 of the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999, the Director-General of the Ministry for Primary Industries gives the following notice.

Notice

1. Title

This notice is the Fisheries (Notification of Tāngata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for Te Waha-o-te-Marangai Mātaitai Reserve) Notice 2019.

2. Commencement

This notice comes into force on 20 December 2019.

3. Revocation of this notice

This notice is revoked five years after its commencement.

4. Mātaitai Reserve

This notice applies to Te Waha-o-te-Marangai Mātaitai Reserve, north of Kaikoura, that was declared by the Kaikoura (Te Tai o Marokura) Marine Management Act 2014.

5. Appointments

(1) The Minister of Fisheries has appointed the following people as Tāngata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the mātaitai reserve:

  1. Brett Cowan:
  2. Ma-rea Clayton:
  3. Debbie Walford:
  4. Keepa Timms:
  5. Nukuroa Tirikatene-Nash:
  6. Jeff Reardon.

(2) The appointments—

  1. took effect on 14 November 2019; and
  2. expire on 13 November 2024.

Dated at Wellington this 11th day of December 2019.

STUART ANDERSON, Director Fisheries Management, on behalf of Director-General, Ministry for Primary Industries.

Explanatory Note

This note is not part of the notice, but is intended to indicate its general effect.

This notice is made under the Fisheries (South Island Customary Fishing) Regulations 1999 (“regulations”). It comes into force on the 20 December 2019 and revokes itself five years after its commencement.

The notice relates to Te Waha-o-te-Marangai Mātaitai Reserve, north of Kaikoura. The tangata whenua of the area that includes the mātaitai reserve are represented by Te Rūnanga o Kaikoura.

Notice is given of the appointment of six Tāngata Tiaki/Kaitiaki for the mātaitai reserve. The Minister of Fisheries made the appointments at the request of Te Rūnanga o Kaikoura.

The powers of Tāngata Tiaki/Kaitiaki are set out in the regulations.