Appendix 1: Legislation and international agreements

The Department works towards achievement of the outcome and the intermediate outcomes in accordance with its statutory responsibilities and with the international conventions to which New Zealand is a signatory.

Legislation administered by the Department of Conservation

Conservation Act 1987

Canterbury Provincial Buildings Vesting Act 1928

Harbour Boards Dry Land Endowment Revesting Act 1991

Hauraki Gulf Marine Park Act 2000

Kapiti Island Public Reserve Act 1897

Lake Wanaka Preservation Act 1973

Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978

Marine Reserves Act 1971

Mount Egmont Vesting Act 1978

National Parks Act 1980

Native Plants Protection Act 1934

New Zealand Walkways Act 1990

Ngai Tahu (Tutaepatu Lagoon Vesting) Act 1998

Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust Act 1977

Queenstown Reserves Vesting and Empowering Act 1971

Reserves Act 1977

Stewart Island Reserves Empowering Act 1976

Sugar Loaf Islands Marine Protected Area Act 1991

Trade In Endangered Species Act 1989

Tutae-Ka-Wetoweto Forest Act 2001

Waitangi Endowment Act 1932-1933

Waitangi National Trust Board Act 1932

Waitutu Block Settlement Act 1997

Wild Animal Control Act 1977

Wildlife Act 1953

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Key Acts under which the Department also has functions

Biosecurity Act 1993

Crown Forest Assets Act 1989

Crown Minerals Act 1991

Crown Pastoral Land Act 1998

Fisheries Act 1996

Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004

Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977

Forests Act 1949

Land Act 1948

Local Government Act 1974

Local Government Act 2002

Māori Land Amendment and Māori Land Claims Adjustment Act 1926

Public Works Act 1981

Resource Management Act 1991

Treaty of Waitangi Settlement Acts

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International agreements

The New Zealand government is a signatory to a range of international agreements that deal with international environmental and conservation issues. Those in which the Department has a particular interest are:

• Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage (The World Heritage Convention)
• Convention on Biological Diversity
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna (CITES)
• Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources
• Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals
• Convention on the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna
• Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention)
• International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling
• Pacific Regional Environment Programme
• United Nations open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and Law of the Sea
• World Conservation Union (IUCN).

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