25 Aug 2014
THE NEW ZEALAND MOTOR CARAVAN ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED v THAMES-COROMANDEL DISTRICT COUNCIL [2014] NZHC 2016
- Citation
- [2014] NZHC 2016
- Court
- High Court
Court held the Freedom Camping Bylaw as made on 14 December 2011 was valid: the Council reasonably satisfied itself of s11(2) requirements (necessity, appropriateness/proportionality and NZBORA consistency) and any limitation on s18 NZBORA was justified under s5; the Council's resolutions of 13 March and 27 November 2013 purporting to amend Schedules A and B were unlawful for failure to use the required special consultative procedure and those amendments were severed and quashed; Clauses 203.5 and 2003.5 of the Consolidated Bylaw are to be revoked via proper statutory steps and are not to be…