Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1980
Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1980
Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1980
Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1980
Public Act |
1981 No 141 |
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Date of assent |
13 January 1981 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1980, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Bylaws for protection of watercourses, etc.
(1)
Section 149(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing paragraph (o) (as added by section 28(4) of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1959), and substituting the following paragraph:
“(o)
Prescribing and providing for the collection of fees payable to the Board or Catchment Commission to meet the cost of surveys, inspections, and supervision in contemplation of or in connection with works of construction or excavation that would or might affect the flow of water in, into, from, or about any watercourse, and for the issue and supervision by the Board or Catchment Commission of permits for any such work.”
(2)
Section 28(4) of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1959 is hereby consequentially repealed.
3 Safeguards publicly notified
(1)
Section 34 of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1959 is hereby amended by inserting, after subsection (2), the following subsections:
“(2a)
If the Catchment Board or the Catchment Commission refuses to grant consent under subsection (2) of this section, or grants such consent subject to any conditions, the applicant may object to the Board or Commission against the refusal or against any such condition.
“(2b)
On receiving any such objection, the Board or Commission shall forthwith refer it to the Council for decision.
“(2c)
On receiving any such objection, the Council shall consider it and make a decision, and forward its decision to the Board or Commission and the applicant.
“(2d)
The decision of the Council under subsection (2c) of this section shall be binding on both parties.”
(2)
Section 34 of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1959 is hereby further amended—
(a)
By inserting in subsection (1), after the word “watercourses,”
, the words “lakes, or the sea,”
:
(b)
By adding to subsection (2) the words “, lakes, or the sea”
.
(3)
Section 35 of the Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Amendment Act 1959 is hereby amended—
(a)
By inserting in subsection (1), after the word “watercourses,”
in both places where it occurs, the words “lakes, or the sea,”
:
(b)
By inserting in subsection (2), after the word “watercourse,”
in both places where it occurs, the words “a lake, or the sea,”
.
This Act is administered in the Ministry of Works and Development.