Waikato-Tainui (Waikato River Fisheries) Amendment Regulations 2025
2025/41
Waikato-Tainui (Waikato River Fisheries) Amendment Regulations 2025
Cindy Kiro, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 10th day of March 2025
Present:
Her Excellency the Governor-General in Council
These regulations are made under section 186 of the Fisheries Act 1996 and section 93 of the Waikato-Tainui Raupatu Claims (Waikato River) Settlement Act 2010 on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council.
Regulations
1 Title
These regulations are the Waikato-Tainui (Waikato River Fisheries) Amendment Regulations 2025.
2 Commencement
These regulations come into force on 10 April 2025.
3 Principal regulations
These regulations amend the Waikato-Tainui (Waikato River Fisheries) Regulations 2011.
4 Regulation 4 amended (Relationship between these regulations and other regulations)
(1)
In the heading to regulation 4, replace “other regulations”
with “other secondary legislation”
.
(2)
In regulation 4(1) and (4), replace “other regulations”
with “other secondary legislation”
in each place.
5 Regulation 5 amended (General interpretation)
In regulation 5, after the definition of application, insert:
bylaw means a bylaw published under regulation 23(6)
Rachel Hayward,
Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the regulations but is intended to indicate their general effect.
These regulations amend the Waikato-Tainui (Waikato River Fisheries) Regulations 2011 (the principal regulations), and come into force 10 April 2025.
Clause 4 amends regulation 4 of the principal regulations to provide that the principal regulations prevail over any other secondary legislation made under the Fisheries Act 1996, and not just other regulations.
Clause 5 amends regulation 5 to include a definition of bylaw.
Regulatory impact statement
The Ministry for Primary Industries produced a regulatory impact statement on 25 May 2023 to help inform the decisions taken by the Government relating to the contents of this instrument.
A copy of this regulatory impact statement can be found at—
Date of notification in Gazette: 13 March 2025.
These regulations are administered by the Ministry for Primary Industries.