Pursuant to section 14 of the Wildlife Act 1953, I, Sir Edward Denis Blundell, the Governor-General of New Zealand, acting on the joint recommendation of the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Minister of Lands, and the Minister of Transport (being the Ministers charged with the administration of the Departments of State having the control of the land of the Crown affected by this Proclamation), hereby proclaim as follows:

1 Title and commencement

2 Wildlife refuge declared

3 Use of boats

4 Revocations

Schedule

1 Title and commencement

(1) This Proclamation may be cited as the Buller River Mouth Wildlife Refuge Order 1973.

(2) This Proclamation shall come into force on the day after the date of its notification in the Gazette.

2 Wildlife refuge declared

The area described in the Schedule (hereinafter referred to as the refuge) is hereby declared to be a wildlife refuge for the purposes of section 14 of the Wildlife Act 1953.

3 Use of boats

Except with the prior written authority of the Director-General of Conservation and subject to compliance with any conditions that the Director-General may impose, no person shall use any boat in the refuge.

Regulation 3: amended, on 1 April 1987, by section 65(3) of the Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65).

4 Revocations

The following Proclamations are hereby revoked:
- (a) Proclamation made on 11 May 1957 declaring the land described in the Schedule to be a wildlife refuge (Gazette, 16 May 1957, p 825):
- (b) Proclamation made on 3 September 1957 prohibiting the use of boats in the said refuge (Gazette, 12 September 1957, p 1639).

Schedule

All that area in the Nelson Land District, Buller County, containing by admeasurement 43.7060 hectares, more or less, comprising portion of the Western Lagoon, Section 231, Square 141, and adjacent islands, situated in Block II, Steeples Survey District, and bounded generally as follows:

Commencing at a point on the mean high-water mark being the south-western corner of Section 225, Square 141; thence towards the north by the said Section 225, Section 224, Square 141, the road forming the boundaries of parts Section 17, Block II, and Section 60, Square 141, and by Crown land to a point in line with the production of a due south line from the south-eastern corner of the said Section 60, Square 141; thence due south by that line produced to the northern boundary of Section 61, Square 141, thence westerly and southerly by the said Section 61 to a point in line with the production of the road forming the south-eastern boundary of Section 222, Square 141, and by that line produced to the road forming the north-eastern boundary of the said Section 222; thence by that road, part Section 238, Square 141, Section 223, Square 141, again by part Section 238, Square 141, the abutment of a public road, Crown land, and the road forming the southeastern boundary of part Section 17, Block II, to the point of commencement.

As the same is more particularly shown on a plan marked IA Wil 34/26/1 deposited in the Head Office, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington, and thereon edged red.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Governor-General, and issued under the Seal of New Zealand, this 5th day of November 1973.

Henry May,
Minister of Internal Affairs.

God Save the Queen!

Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 15 November 1973.

1General
2Status of reprints
3How reprints are prepared
4Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989
5List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Notes

1 General

This is a reprint of the Buller River Mouth Wildlife Refuge Order 1973. The reprint incorporates all the amendments to the Proclamation as at 1 April 1987, as specified in the list of amendments at the end of these notes.

Relevant provisions of any amending enactments that contain transitional, savings, or application provisions that cannot be compiled in the reprint are also included, after the principal enactment, in chronological order. For more information, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/reprints/ .

2 Status of reprints

Under section 16D of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, reprints are presumed to correctly state, as at the date of the reprint, the law enacted by the principal enactment and by the amendments to that enactment. This presumption applies even though editorial changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in the reprint.

This presumption may be rebutted by producing the official volumes of statutes or statutory regulations in which the principal enactment and its amendments are contained.

3 How reprints are prepared

A number of editorial conventions are followed in the preparation of reprints. For example, the enacting words are not included in Acts, and provisions that are repealed or revoked are omitted. For a detailed list of the editorial conventions, see http://www.pco.parliament.govt.nz/editorial-conventions/ or Part 8 of the Tables of New Zealand Acts and Ordinances and Statutory Regulations and Deemed Regulations in Force.

4 Changes made under section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989

Section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 authorises the making of editorial changes in a reprint as set out in sections 17D and 17E of that Act so that, to the extent permitted, the format and style of the reprinted enactment is consistent with current legislative drafting practice. Changes that would alter the effect of the legislation are not permitted.

A new format of legislation was introduced on 1 January 2000. Changes to legislative drafting style have also been made since 1997, and are ongoing. To the extent permitted by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989, all legislation reprinted after 1 January 2000 is in the new format for legislation and reflects current drafting practice at the time of the reprint.

In outline, the editorial changes made in reprints under the authority of section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 are set out below, and they have been applied, where relevant, in the preparation of this reprint:
- •omission of unnecessary referential words (such as “of this section” and “of this Act”)
- •typeface and type size (Times Roman, generally in 11.5 point)
- •layout of provisions, including:
  - •indentation
  - •position of section headings (eg, the number and heading now appear above the section)
- •format of definitions (eg, the defined term now appears in bold type, without quotation marks)
- •format of dates (eg, a date formerly expressed as “the 1st day of January 1999” is now expressed as “1 January 1999”)
- •position of the date of assent (it now appears on the front page of each Act)
- •punctuation (eg, colons are not used after definitions)
- •Parts numbered with roman numerals are replaced with arabic numerals, and all cross-references are changed accordingly
- •case and appearance of letters and words, including:
  - •format of headings (eg, headings where each word formerly appeared with an initial capital letter followed by small capital letters are amended so that the heading appears in bold, with only the first word (and any proper nouns) appearing with an initial capital letter)
  - •small capital letters in section and subsection references are now capital letters
- •schedules are renumbered (eg, Schedule 1 replaces First Schedule), and all cross-references are changed accordingly
- •running heads (the information that appears at the top of each page)
- •format of two-column schedules of consequential amendments, and schedules of repeals (eg, they are rearranged into alphabetical order, rather than chronological).

5 List of amendments incorporated in this reprint (most recent first)

Conservation Act 1987 (1987 No 65): section 65(3)