20 Dec 2013
NEW ZEALAND STEEL LIMITED v THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL [2013] NZHC 3524
- Citation
- [2013] NZHC 3524
- Court
- High Court
The Iron and Steel Industry Act 1959 created a special statutory regime authorising ironsands mining without further authority and the 1966 licence conferred the contractual and statutory right to require the Crown to fell and remove trees as part of those mining operations; the Crown Minerals Act transitional provisions preserved those pre-1991 statutory rights so neither the licensee nor the Crown require resource consents under the Resource Management Act 1991 for tree felling and necessary incidental land disturbance.