Act Repealed Latest version as at 20 October 1978 (as enacted) | 1978 No 116

New Zealand Walkways Amendment Act 1978

Checking for related legislation...

Search content

Checking for alerts... Loading...

New Zealand Walkways Amendment Act 1978

Public Act		1978 No 116
Date of assent		20 October 1978

	Title
1	Short Title
2	Damage to property
3	Offences
	Administrative information

An Act to amend the New Zealand Walkways Act 1975

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 New Zealand Walkways Amendment Act 1978, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the New Zealand Walkways Act 1975 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

2 Damage to property

(1)

Section 30 of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the word “State,”, the words “and money required for the discharge of any liability for damage to property incurred in respect of a walkway,”.

(2)

Section 31(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the words “and to meet any liability for damage to property incurred in respect of a walkway”.

3 Offences

(1)

Section 39(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended—

(a)

By inserting in paragraph (h), after the words “removes any”, the words “crop, pasture,”:

(b)

By omitting from paragraph (j) the words “or at any entrance to a walkway”, and substituting the words “or adjacent to any walkway, or at any entrance to a walkway”.

(2)

The said section 39(1) is hereby further amended by inserting, after paragraph (j), the following paragraph:

“(ja)

Wilfully damages or interferes with any fence, gate, machinery, vehicle, equipment, building, or other structure situated on property adjacent to a walkway; or”.

This Act is administered in the Department of Lands and Survey.

New Zealand Walkways Amendment Act 1978