Wildlife (Authorisations) Amendment Act 2025

• Jurisdiction: New Zealand
• Year: 2025
• Record Number: LMS1435998
• Act Number: 22
• Type of Document: Act

Contenidos

• Wildlife (Authorisations) Amendment Act 2025
• Contents
• 1 Title
• 2 Commencement
• 3 Principal Act
• Part 1
• 4 New sections 53A to 53C inserted
• 53A Authority may be granted under section 53 to kill wildlife incidentally
• 53B Authority under section 53 to kill wildlife incidentally: consistency with protection of wildlife
• 53C Conditions that may be imposed on authority under section 53 to kill wildlife incidentally
• Part 2
• 5 New section 2AA inserted (Transitional, savings, and related provisions)
• 2AA Transitional, savings, and related provisions
• 6 New Schedule 1AA inserted
• Schedules
• New Schedule 1AA inserted
• 1AA Transitional, savings, and related provisions

Wildlife (Authorisations) Amendment Act 2025

Contents

1 Title

This Act is the Wildlife (Authorisations) Amendment Act 2025.

2 Commencement

This Act comes into force on 14 May 2025.

Section 2: editorial change made by the PCO, on 20 May 2025, under sections 86(1) and 87(m) of the Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 58).

3 Principal Act

This Act amends the Wildlife Act 1953.

Part 1

4 New sections 53A to 53C inserted

After section 53, insert:

53A Authority may be granted under section 53 to kill wildlife incidentally

53B Authority under section 53 to kill wildlife incidentally: consistency with protection of wildlife

The authority is to be treated as consistent with the protection of wildlife if, in granting it, the Director-General is satisfied that its overall effect would be consistent with the protection of—

1. populations of wildlife; and

2. individual wildlife.

In determining whether the overall effect of the authority would be consistent with the protection of populations of wildlife, the Director-General must have regard to—

any potential adverse effects of the lawful activity on—

1. populations of wildlife that the Director-General is satisfied may be affected by the lawful activity; and

2. the viability of the species to which that wildlife belongs; and

2. the extent to which the authority (including any conditions that the Director-General proposes to impose on the authority) addresses those potential adverse effects; and

3. any other matter that the Director-General considers is relevant.

In granting the authority, the Director-General is not required to be satisfied—

1. that the lawful activity is itself consistent with the protection of wildlife; or

2. that each individual act of killing, viewed in isolation, would be consistent with the protection of wildlife.

53C Conditions that may be imposed on authority under section 53 to kill wildlife incidentally

The Director-General may impose, on an authority referred to in section 53A, any conditions providing for measures that the Director-General is satisfied are needed—

1. to address potential adverse effects of the lawful activity on populations of wildlife or the viability of the species to which that wildlife belongs (including, for example, measures to offset adverse effects caused by killing individual wildlife belonging to that species); or

2. to avoid, minimise, or mitigate any adverse effects of the lawful activity on individual wildlife.

Part 2

5 New section 2AA inserted (Transitional, savings, and related provisions)

After section 2A, insert:

2AA Transitional, savings, and related provisions

6 New Schedule 1AA inserted

Insert the Schedule 1AA set out in the Schedule of this Act as the first schedule to appear after the...