Summary

NOTE: This standard is archived

Under the various Treaty Settlement Acts nohoanga (campsite) entitlements have been set aside for occupation by the iwi and whanau while gathering food.

Nohoanga Entitlements are temporary rights to occupy sites situated on Crown owned land - land administered by either Land Information NZ or the Department of Conservation. They are not permanent parcels and are more in the form of a covenant than a subdivision. The entitlements are seasonal and are a ‘right to occupy’ a site for up to 210 days per year. These nohoanga sites can only be created over Crown land within the claim area.

Following identification on the ground and definition by survey and with the required approvals, the entitlements will be published in the NZ Gazette. Under the requirements of the Settlement Acts the Chief Surveyor must note the grant of entitlement in his or her records. As the entitlements will be over land of the Crown only the Gazette notices will not normally be recorded in the Land Transfer records although they may be able to be should DoC have a title to a reserve that is to be subject to a nohoanga site.

The first nohoanga sites were negotiated in the Ngai Tahu Settlement, but subsequent settlement agreements and acts have provisions similar to the nohoanga sites. This policy should be read to include these sites as being recorded on the same basis as the Ngai Tahu sites in the South Island.

This version of the policy makes it generic to all settlements rather than restricting it to the Ngai Tahu Settlement nohoanga.

This policy is produced to achieve consistency in undertaking the recording of Nohoanga (or equivalent) site plans in the Land Information NZ plan recording databases – the Digital Cadastral Database (DCDB) and in the Core Record System (CRS1 and CRS2).