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Access
- Unformed Legal Roads
- Types of legal public access
- Overseas Investment Act
- Walking on Crown-owned land
- Cyclists and mountain bikers
- Walkways
- Resolving disputes over access
- The Country and Outdoor Recreation Calendar
- Walking over private land to get to public land
- Can a landholder stop me using an unformed legal road?
- Forms of legal access across private land
- Dogs
- Motor vehicle on walking tracks
- Types of walkways
- Bikes, dogs and horses on walkways
- Greenways, property developers and the use of incentives
- What a wellbeing framework means for access to the outdoors
- Landholders can refuse the right to walk over land
- Downloadable GPX files make accessing hidden spots easier
- Shared pathways
- Forestry
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Responsible behaviour
- The Outdoor Access Code
- Asking nicely
- Carrying a gun
- Horse riding responsibly
- Mountain biking responsibly
- Caring for the environment
- Being responsible with fire in the outdoors
- Four-wheel driving responsibly
- Kauri dieback, myrtle rust and more
- Mycoplasma Bovis - information for people crossing farms
- Health and safety
- Māori land
- Funding and awards
- Rivers, lakes and coast
- Education
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Gaining permission to access Māori land?
Māori land is privately-owned land and does not have public access rights. You must seek permission from the owners or those authorised by them. You must also ask for information about the relevant tikanga (customs or protocols) to observe on that land. You can cause extreme cultural offence by haere pokanoa (unauthorised wandering).
Seeking permission may not be straightforward. You may need the help of the local Māori Land Court and tribal runanga to identify property boundaries, owners and appropriate contacts. Where land Māori trusts or Māori land incorporation own land, it is often possible to contact these entities. The Māori Land Court’s mapping website provides information on Māori land that may help you obtain permission.
Crown land returned to Māori as part of a Treaty of Waitangi settlement has general land status rather than Māori land status under the Te Ture Whenua Māori Act 1993. Any pre-existing public access rights are usually preserved.
Page last updated: Jul 13, 2022, 1:16 PM