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Acts Affecting Native Lands, Etc. (In English and Maori), Passed by the General Assembly, Session 1892, 1893, 1897, 1898, 1899.
Natural Oyster-Beds.—Ordinary Licenses
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Natural Oyster-Beds.—Ordinary Licenses.
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Governor may declare tidal waters open for oysterfishing.
The Governor from time to time may declare any bay, estuary, or tidal waters in the colony to be an oyster-fishery under this Act, and may part the same into subdivisions by distinguishing marks, and prescribe the subdivisions thereof wherein it shall be lawful and unlawful respectively to take oysters. All such oyster-beds and the subdivisions thereof shall be marked out, as far as may be, as provided in section eighteen in respect of artificial oyster-beds, in such manner as may be prescribed. |
| 13. | Governor may grant licenses for taking oysters from natural beds. The Governor may from time to time make regulations for granting licenses for the right of taking oysters either from the bed of the sea or from lands below high-water mark, which may be declared open as an oyster fishery, for any period not exceeding one year, on payment for the same of an annual fee of ten shillings. |
| 14. | Special order as regards taking of oysters by Natives. The Governor may, by Order in Council, from time to time declare any bay, or portion of a bay, estuary, or tidal waters in the colony in the vicinity of any Native pa or village to be an oyster-fishery where Natives exclusively may take oysters for their own food at all times, irrespective of any of the provisions of this Act, and may from time to time revoke the same; and may prescribe regulations for preventing the sale by Natives of any oysters from such beds, and for protecting any such bay, estuary, or tidal waters from trespassers, and the oysters therein from destruction. |