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- Directory of Official Information December 2009, Ministry of Justice website, http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/d/directory-of-official-information-december-2009 (accessed 11 November 2010).
- Fish and Game New Zealand website, http://www.fishandgame.org.nz/Site/Environment/environmentGBHtrust.aspx (accessed 11 November 2010).
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet website, http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/ (accessed 11 November 2010).
- New Zealand Parliament website, http://www.parliament.nz/ (accessed 11 November 2010).
- New Zealand Legislation website, http://www.legislation.govt.nz/ (accessed 11 November 2010).
- New Zealand Legal Information Institute website, http://www.nzlii.org/ (accessed 11 November 2010).
Establishment
The New Zealand Game Bird Habitat Trust Board was a charitable body established in September 1993 under the provisions of the Wildlife Amendment Act 1993. Its main goal was to enhance New Zealand's game bird habitat, and as a second priority to improve the habitat of other wildlife.1 Its was also responsible for the Game Habitat Stamp Programme (which was administered by the New Zealand Fish and Game Council/Fish and Game New Zealand).
The Game Habitat Stamp Programme was initiated in 1993 to collect funds for habitat protection, and was based on a duck stamp programme that originated in North America. The Game Habitat stamp validated all game bird hunting licenses sold in New Zealand. In addition to the actual stamps, limited edition art prints that were derived from habitat stamp artwork and first day covers were sold in New Zealand and overseas. The habitat stamps and other related merchandise were marketed by New Zealand Post.2
Functions and Responsibilities
The functions of the Board, as set out under the Act, were:
- Primarily to improve New Zealand's game bird habitat and secondarily to improve the habitat of other wildlife;
- To identify and evaluate areas of New Zealand worthy of protection, restoration, improvement, creation, or procurement primarily as game bird habitat and secondarily as habitat for other wildlife;
- To negotiate, where appropriate, the protection, restoration, improvement, creation, or procurement of game bird habitat with landowners;
- To receive submissions and applications from any person or organisation within New Zealand for the protection, restoration, improvement, creation, or procurement primarily of game bird habitat and secondarily of habitat for other wildlife, and to evaluate each submission or application for the purpose of determining whether or not to support it;
- To promote and provide advice to prospective applicants on the protection, restoration, improvement, creation, or procurement of habitat suitable for game birds and associated wildlife;
- To promote the sale of game bird habitat stamps and associated products to game bird hunters and to the public within New Zealand and to persons outside New Zealand;
- To ensure that the revenue arising from the game bird habitat stamp programme and associated products is clearly separated from other revenue arising for the management of New Zealand's game bird resources;
- To recommend to the New Zealand Fish and Game Council that it enter into such contracts as may be appropriate to annually produce a game bird habitat stamp and associated products;
- To operate in the name of the Board such bank accounts as the Board thinks fit and to keep proper records of such accounts;
- To disburse by way of grants such proportion of its funds each year as it considers appropriate for the purpose of carrying out its functions;
- To recommend to the New Zealand Fish and Game Council the fees for the following year's game bird habitat stamp;
Annually -
- To recommend to the New Zealand Fish and Game Council the game bird or other wildlife species to be depicted on the following year's game bird habitat stamp;
- To appoint, or select by competition, an artist to produce the stamp artwork of the species approved by the New Zealand Fish and Game Council;
- To liaise with the New Zealand Fish and Game Council, or individual Fish and Game Councils, as the case may be, to have provision on licences for the affixing of a game bird habitat stamp;
- To co-ordinate with the New Zealand Fish and Game Council the production of game bird habitat stamps and their affixing to licences;
- To provide regular reports to the New Zealand Fish and Game Council, Fish and Game Councils, the Department of Conservation, Ducks Unlimited New Zealand Incorporated, and other similar interested persons or organisations.3
Structure4
The Board consisted of six members who were appointed on a three-year term by the Minister of Conservation. The Chairman was a direct Ministerial appointment, with three Board members being appointed from nominations made by the New Zealand Fish and Game Council, one member from nominations made by the Department of Conservation, and one member from nominations made by Ducks Unlimited (New Zealand) Incorporated.
The Board was serviced by the secretariat of the New Zealand Fish and Game Council (which operated as Fish and Game New Zealand).
- p.1, Report of the Game Bird Habitat Trust Board for the year ended 31 August 2004 (C.22), New Zealand Parliament website, http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/521557F8-C65B-4F40-8A50-05B40FAB4D4E/87229/DBHOH_PAP_11919_4523.pdf (accessed 11 November 2010).
- ibid.
- Section 44D, Wildlife Act 1953 (as inserted by section 4 of the Wildlife Amendment Act 1993), New Zealand Legislation website, http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1953/0031/latest/DLM277845.html (accessed 11 November 2010).
- Directory of Official Information December 2009, Ministry of Justice website, http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/d/directory-of-official-information-december-2009/alphabetical-list-of-entries-1/n/new-zealand-game-bird-habitat-trust-board (accessed 11 November 2010).
Show History
Establishment
The New Zealand Game Bird Habitat Trust Board was a charitable body established in September 1993 under the provisions of the Wildlife Amendment Act 1993. Its main goal was to enhance New Zealand's game bird habitat, and as a second priority to improve the habitat of other wildlife.1 Its was also responsible for the Game Habitat Stamp Programme (which was administered by the New Zealand Fish and Game Council/Fish and Game New Zealand).
The Game Habitat Stamp Programme was initiated in 1993 to collect funds for habitat protection, and was based on a duck stamp programme that originated in North America. The Game Habitat stamp validated all game bird hunting licenses sold in New Zealand. In addition to the actual stamps, limited edition art prints that were derived from habitat stamp artwork and first day covers were sold in New Zealand and overseas. The habitat stamps and other related merchandise were marketed by New Zealand Post.2
Functions and Responsibilities
The functions of the Board, as set out under the Act, were:
- Primarily to improve New Zealand's game bird habitat and secondarily to improve the habitat of other wildlife;
- To identify and evaluate areas of New Zealand worthy of protection, restoration, improvement, creation, or procurement primarily as game bird habitat and secondarily as habitat for other wildlife;
- To negotiate, where appropriate, the protection, restoration, improvement, creation, or procurement of game bird habitat with landowners;
- To receive submissions and applications from any person or organisation within New Zealand for the protection, restoration, improvement, creation, or procurement primarily of game bird habitat and secondarily of habitat for other wildlife, and to evaluate each submission or application for the purpose of determining whether or not to support it;
- To promote and provide advice to prospective applicants on the protection, restoration, improvement, creation, or procurement of habitat suitable for game birds and associated wildlife;
- To promote the sale of game bird habitat stamps and associated products to game bird hunters and to the public within New Zealand and to persons outside New Zealand;
- To ensure that the revenue arising from the game bird habitat stamp programme and associated products is clearly separated from other revenue arising for the management of New Zealand's game bird resources;
- To recommend to the New Zealand Fish and Game Council that it enter into such contracts as may be appropriate to annually produce a game bird habitat stamp and associated products;
- To operate in the name of the Board such bank accounts as the Board thinks fit and to keep proper records of such accounts;
- To disburse by way of grants such proportion of its funds each year as it considers appropriate for the purpose of carrying out its functions;
- To recommend to the New Zealand Fish and Game Council the fees for the following year's game bird habitat stamp;
Annually -
- To recommend to the New Zealand Fish and Game Council the game bird or other wildlife species to be depicted on the following year's game bird habitat stamp;
- To appoint, or select by competition, an artist to produce the stamp artwork of the species approved by the New Zealand Fish and Game Council;
- To liaise with the New Zealand Fish and Game Council, or individual Fish and Game Councils, as the case may be, to have provision on licences for the affixing of a game bird habitat stamp;
- To co-ordinate with the New Zealand Fish and Game Council the production of game bird habitat stamps and their affixing to licences;
- To provide regular reports to the New Zealand Fish and Game Council, Fish and Game Councils, the Department of Conservation, Ducks Unlimited New Zealand Incorporated, and other similar interested persons or organisations.3
Structure4
The Board consisted of six members who were appointed on a three-year term by the Minister of Conservation. The Chairman was a direct Ministerial appointment, with three Board members being appointed from nominations made by the New Zealand Fish and Game Council, one member from nominations made by the Department of Conservation, and one member from nominations made by Ducks Unlimited (New Zealand) Incorporated.
The Board was serviced by the secretariat of the New Zealand Fish and Game Council (which operated as Fish and Game New Zealand).
- p.1, Report of the Game Bird Habitat Trust Board for the year ended 31 August 2004 (C.22), New Zealand Parliament website, http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/521557F8-C65B-4F40-8A50-05B40FAB4D4E/87229/DBHOH_PAP_11919_4523.pdf (accessed 11 November 2010).
- ibid.
- Section 44D, Wildlife Act 1953 (as inserted by section 4 of the Wildlife Amendment Act 1993), New Zealand Legislation website, http://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1953/0031/latest/DLM277845.html (accessed 11 November 2010).
- Directory of Official Information December 2009, Ministry of Justice website, http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/d/directory-of-official-information-december-2009/alphabetical-list-of-entries-1/n/new-zealand-game-bird-habitat-trust-board (accessed 11 November 2010).
The date of establishment of the New Zealand Game Bird Habitat Trust Board is based on the date of appointment of the inaugral board, in September 1993.
- Directory of Official Information December 2009, Ministry of Justice website, http://www.justice.govt.nz/publications/global-publications/d/directory-of-official-information-december-2009 (accessed 11 November 2010).
- Fish and Game New Zealand website, http://www.fishandgame.org.nz/Site/Environment/environmentGBHtrust.aspx (accessed 11 November 2010).
- Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet website, http://www.dpmc.govt.nz/ (accessed 11 November 2010).
- New Zealand Parliament website, http://www.parliament.nz/ (accessed 11 November 2010).
- New Zealand Legislation website, http://www.legislation.govt.nz/ (accessed 11 November 2010).
- New Zealand Legal Information Institute website, http://www.nzlii.org/ (accessed 11 November 2010).
- Public Finance Amendment Act 2004
- Wildlife Act 1953
- New Zealand Game Bird Habitat Stamp Regulations 1993
- Public Finance Act 1989
- Public Audit Act 2001
- Charities Act 2005
- πΌ Fish and game regulation (1861 ‑ )
- π Conservation (1986 ‑ )
- π Realm of New Zealand (1993 ‑ )