20240924-Marine-and-Coastal-Area-Takutai-Moana-Customary-Marine-Title-Amendment-Bill.pdf [pdf, 372 KB]
...Court of Appeal’s decision, Parliament passed the Foreshore and Seabed Act 2004 (FSA). That Act vested legal ownership of the foreshore and seabed in the Crown and extinguished territorial Māori customary rights in those areas, as well as providing protection for public access and navigation rights. The Act prescribed a process by which those held to have territorial customary rights in the foreshore and seabed could seek redress from the Crown or apply for creation of a foreshore and s...