Rangitira Developments Ltd v Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society of New Zealand Inc - [2020] 1 NZLR 214

Environmental law — Reserves — Mining — Attempt to reach access agreement with local authority as owner of reserve land — Whether local authority required to give effect to provisions of Reserves Act — Whether provisions of Reserves Act to be weighed against other matters — Whether Crown Minerals Act had primacy over Reserves Act — Reserves Act 1977 ss 16, 23, 109.

Statutes — Interpretation — Reference to repealed provision — Extent to which to be read as reference to Act repealing provision referred to — Interpretation Act 1999 s 22(2).