User:Alan Liefting/New Zealand environmental law

This article discusses New Zealand environmental law.

Key laws relating to the environment:
 * Biosecurity Act 1993
 * Conservation Act 1987
 * Crown Minerals Act 1991
 * Environment Act 1986
 * Fisheries Act 1996
 * Forests Act 1949 (with 1993 amendment)
 * Hazardous Substances and New Organisms Act 1996
 * Ozone Layer Protection Act 1996
 * Resource Management Act 1991
 * Wildlife Act 1953
 * Other laws relating to the environment*
 * Agricultural and Pastoral Societies Act 1908
 * Agriculture (Emergency Powers) Act 1934
 * Animal Control Products Ltd Act 1991
 * Animal Identification Act 1993
 * Animal Remedies Act 1967
 * Animals Act 1967
 * Animals Protection Act 1960
 * Antarctic Marine Living Resources Act 1981
 * Antarctica Act 1960
 * Antarctica (Environmental Protection) Act 1994
 * Atomic Energy Act 1945
 * Building Act 1991
 * Continental Shelf Act 1964
 * Crown Forest Assets Act 1989
 * Crown Grants Act 1908
 * Crown Research Institutes Act 1992
 * Customs Act 1966
 * Dangerous Goods Act 1974
 * Dog Control and Hydatids Act 1982
 * Driftnet Prohibition Act 1991
 * Dumping and Countervailing Duties Act 1988
 * Electricity Act 1992
 * Energy Companies Act 1992
 * Energy Resources Levy Act 1976
 * Explosives Act 1957
 * Fertilisers Acts 1960 and 1982
 * Foreshore and Seabed Endowment Revesting Act 1991
 * Forest and Rural Fires Act 1977
 * Foundation for Research, Science and Technology Act 1990
 * Franklin-Manukau Pests Destruction Act 1971
 * Gas Act 1992
 * Harbour Boards Dry Land Endowment Revesting Act 1991
 * Harbours Act 1950
 * Historic Places Act 1993
 * Import Control Act 1988
 * International Energy Agreement Act 1976
 * Irrigation Schemes Act 1990
 * Lake Wanaka Preservation Act 1973
 * Land Act 1948
 * Land Drainage Act 1908
 * Land Transport Act 1993
 * Litter Act 1979
 * Local Government Act 1974
 * Manapouri-Te Anau Development Act 1963
 * Maori Fisheries Act 1989
 * Maori Land Act/Te Ture Whenua Maori 1993
 * Maori Reserved Land Act 1955
 * Maori Vested Lands Administration Act 1954
 * Marine Farming Act 1971
 * Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978
 * Marine Pollution Act 1974
 * Marine Reserves Act 1971
 * Maritime Transport Act 1994
 * National Parks Act 1980
 * Native Plants Protection Act 1934
 * New Zealand Nuclear Free Zone, Disarmament
 * and Arms Control Act 1987
 * New Zealand Walkways Act 1990
 * Pesticides Act 1979
 * Plant Variety Rights Act 1987
 * Queen Elizabeth the Second National Trust Act 1977
 * Radiation Protection Act 1965
 * Rangitaiki Land Drainage Act 1956
 * Reserves Act 1977
 * Road User Charges Act 1977
 * Scientific and Industrial Research Act 1974
 * Soil Conservation and Rivers Control Act 1941
 * Southland Electricity Act 1993
 * Sugar Loaf Islands Marine Protected Area Act 1991
 * Synthetic Fuels Plant (Effluent Disposal) EMP Act
 * Taranaki Harbours Act 1965
 * Tarawera Forest Act 1967
 * Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Act 1977
 * Toxic Substances Act 1979
 * Trade in Endangered Species Act 1989
 * Transit New Zealand Act 1989
 * Transport Act 1962
 * Treaty of Waitangi Act 1975
 * Treaty of Waitangi (Fisheries Claims) Settlement Act 1992
 * Waikato Raupatu Claims Settlement Act 1995
 * Wild Animal Control Act 1977

A further 18 laws (along with their 40 amending acts) were repealed by the Resource Management Act in 1991.