20 APRIL
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE
997

Health and Disability Services Amendment
Amends the Health and Disability Services Act 1993.

The main purpose of the bill is to abolish the Public Health Commission as from 1 July 1995, and to transfer the functions of the Commission relating to public health to the Ministry of Health and to regional health authorities. Consequential amendments are made to the principal Act and certain other enactments.

(Hon. Jenny Shipley/Referred to Social Services Committee).

Environment Amendment
Amends the Environment Act 1986.

The purpose of the bill is to give effect to recommendations of the Finance and Expenditure Committee on the Inquiry into Officers of Parliament relating to the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, and to make consequential changes to the provisions relating to the office and staff of the Commissioner following changes made in the state sector.

Provides for the appointment of a Deputy Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment. The provisions of the Environment Act 1986 relating to the Parliamentary Commissioner apply, with the necessary modifications, to the Deputy Commissioner. In addition provision is made for the functions of the Deputy Commissioner. The Deputy Commissioner, subject to the control of the Parliamentary Commissioner, has all the functions, duties, and powers of the Commissioner.

(Hon. Simon Upton/Referred to Planning and Development Committee).

Crown Pastoral Land
Amends the Land Act 1948. The main provisions are:

• Modifies provisions equivalent to those in the Land Act 1948, making it impossible to grant new pastoral leases except as a consequence of a subdivision of an existing pastoral lease;
• Enables the review of existing tenures under pastoral leases and pastoral occupation licences with a view to restoring some pastoral land to full Crown ownership and control;
• Amends the Land Act 1948 so as to make clear that where land is disposed of, or a new lease or licence is granted for it, the new title, lease, or licence comes not only subject to existing encumbrances, etc., but also with the benefit of existing covenants and appurtenant encumbrances over other land.

(Hon. John Falloon/Referred to the Primary Production Committee).

Private Members’ Bills

Road Transport Revenues Fund
This bill seeks to amend the Public Finance Act 1989 to provide for the establishment of a Road Transport Revenues Fund for the purpose of ensuring that all revenue derived from road transport is spent for the purposes of developing, maintaining, enhancing, or administering road transport in New Zealand.

(Hon. Winston Peters/Introduction denied).

Coromandel Hauraki Gulf (Prohibition on Mining)
Seeks to prohibit mining activity in any conservation area (protected areas) in the Coromandel Peninsula and Hauraki Gulf Islands. It contains transitional provisions relating to existing mining rights and to existing applications for mining rights.

(Judith Tizard/Introduction interrupted).

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Departmental Notices

Agriculture and Fisheries

Fisheries Act 1983

The Fisheries (Cheltenham Beach Shellfish Closed Season) Notice 1995 (No. 5407)

Pursuant to section 85 of the Fisheries Act 1983, the Director-General of Agriculture and Fisheries, after consultation with the Director-General of the Treaty of Waitangi Fisheries Commission, pursuant to sections 85 and 86 of the Fisheries Act 1983, hereby gives the following notice.

Notice

1. Title and commencement—This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (Cheltenham Beach Shellfish Closed Season) Notice 1995 and shall come into force on the 23rd day of April 1995.

2. Interpretation—In this term, the term:

‘‘Shellfish’’ has the meaning given in the Fisheries Act 1983;

‘‘Cheltenham Beach Shellfish Area’’ means all those waters lying within an area bounded by a line commencing at Takapuna Head (at 36° 48.95′S and 174° 48.5′E); thence proceeding generally in a south easterly direction to the eastern most point of North Head (at 36° 49.3′S and 174° 49.7′E); thence generally in a northerly direction along the mean high-water mark to the point of commencement.’’

3. Closed season for shellfish determined—There is hereby determined to be a closed season for the taking of all shellfish within the Cheltenham Beach Shellfish Area