Harbour Boards Dry Land Endowment Revesting Act (No. 104 of 1991). Country/Territory New Zealand Document type Legislation Date 1991 Source FAO, FAOLEX Original source Acts of New Zealand, WWW. Subject Land & soil, Sea Keyword Basic legislation Land tenure Transfer Ownership Vested rights/existing rights Public land Coastal zone management Environmental planning Marine area Harbour Protected area Geographical area ASIA AND THE PACIFIC, Australia and New Zealand, Oceania, South Pacific Abstract The aim of this Act is to provide for certain endowments of dry harbour land to be revested in the Crown or reserved for certain purposes, and to amend certain enactments. Section 4 empowers the Governor-General to declare specified lands vested in local authorities to be revested in the Crown for purpose of conservation (under the Conservation Act 1987), or for the purpose of creating reserves under the Reserves Act 1977. Such lands and any natural or historic resources therein are subsequently protected by section 5 which prohibits their sale without ministerial approval and section 6 which prohibits their destruction, damage or modification unless with approval of the Minister of Conservation. Pre-existing rights on such lands are saved (sect. 7). The schedule to the Act names those lands which may be revested in the Crown for conservation purposes or declared to be reserves; lands that may be revested in the Crown for any purposes; land that may be declared to be a reserve. Full text English