BORA Ngati Tuwharetoa, Raukawa, and Te Arawa River Iwi Waikato River Bill [pdf, 188 KB]
...Waikato-Tainui Raupatu Claims (Waikato River) Settlement Bill, which relates to the involvement of Waikato-Tainui in management of the River and also provides for the Trust and the Authority. Both Bills give iwi rights of participation of a kind that the Resource Management Act contemplates for iwi authorities. The issue relating to consistency with the Bill of Rights concerns clause 4(5)(e) of Schedule 4. This paragraph provides that a member of the Waikato River Authority may be remo...