Foreshore and seabed / by Richard Boast.

Wellington : LexisNexis NZ Limited, 2005.

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New Zealand. -- [Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004].

Shorelines -- Law and legislation -- New Zealand.

Land tenure -- New Zealand.

1. Introduction

2. Title to the foreshore and seabed - legal and historical context

3. Links with other legal problems - rivers, lakes and minerals

4. Defining the foreshore and seabed

5. Common law aspects - title at common law and native title issues

6. Maori customary law relating to the foreshore and seabed

7. Title aspects - the evolution of New Zealand law relating to foreshore and seabed 1840-2004

8. The decision in Ngati Apa v Attorney-General

9. Reaction to Ngati Apa

10. The Waitangi Tribunal's foreshore and seabed report

11. Implications of Ngati Apa for the Maori Land Court and the ordinary courts

12. Legislative background

13. General structure of the FSA and objectives provisions

14. Jurisdictional effects of the FSA

15. Public ownership and management

16. Territorial Customary Rights Orders (TCRs)

17. Customary Rights Orders (CROs).

Foreshore and Seabed provides an overview of the common law relating to the foreshore and seabed, the context of the Court of Appeal's Ngati Apa decision in 2003 over Maori common law rights in the foreshore and seabed, and the policy, history, and key provisions of Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780408717908

xxvi, 308 p.