Image: Whangaehu River at the ford - Te One Tapu
Te Waiū-o-Te-Ika catchment register
The Te Waiū-o-Te-Ika Catchment Register is a list of hearing commissioners who can make decisions on notified resource consents about discharges to water, activities on river and lake beds, and water use, including takes, dams or diversions for the Te Waiū catchment. This also applies to any other activities a consenting authority considers relevant. This does not apply to non-notified consents.
Te Waiū commissioners need expertise in a range of disciplines, including kawa, tikanga, and ritenga of Ngā Iwi o Te Waiū. They should be knowledgeable about the catchment. They need to understand Te Mana Tupua and Ngā Toka Tupua and the legal weight these have. They can belong to the iwi of the catchment.
Ngā Iwi o Te Waiū-o-Te-Ika can nominate people for the register. Ngā Wai Tōtā is in charge of maintaining the register.
Image: Whangaehu River sulphur on rocks - Tirorangi
Appointing hearing commissioners
There are times when authorities appointing hearing commissioners have obligations under the Te Waiū-o-Te-Ika. When they are appointing commissioners for notified resource consents about discharges to water, activities on river and lake beds, and water use, takes, dams or diversions for the Te Waiū catchment or any other activities they consider relevant, they must have particular regard to the Te Waiū-o-Te-Ika catchment register and Te Mana Tupua and Ngā Toka Tupua. They must also be guided by the need for the hearing panel to have people on it who understand Te Mana Tupua and Ngā Toka Tupua, are knowledgeable about the Te Waiū catchment, and have expertise in a range of disciplines, including kawa, tikanga, and ritenga of Ngā Iwi o Te Waiū.