Northland Environmental Protection Society Incorporated v The Chief Executive of the Ministry for Primary Industries, Comptroller of Customs and The Chief Executive of the Ministry for Culture and Heritage - SC 10/2018
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Summary
Result
B The approved questions are:
(a) Was the Court of Appeal correct in its interpretation of “finished or manufactured indigenous timber product” and the effect of the export restrictions in s 67C of the Forests Act 1949?
(b) Was the Court of Appeal correct to hold that some or all swamp kauri is not a “protected New Zealand object” as defined in s 2(1) of the Protected Objects Act 1975?
19 April 2018
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A The appeal relating to the interpretation of the export restriction in s 67C(1)(b) of the Forests Act 1949 is allowed.
B The appeal relating to the Protected Objects Act 1975 is dismissed.
C Costs are reserved.
9 November 2018
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High Court decision — Northland Environmental Protection Society Inc. v Ministry of Primary Industries & Ors [2016] NZHC 308 [1 March 2017]
Court of Appeal decision — NORTHLAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INC v THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE MINISTRY FOR PRIMARY INDUSTRIES [2017] NZCA 607 [19 December 2017]
Leave judgment - leave granted — NORTHLAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INCORPORATED v CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE MINISTRY FOR PRIMARY INDUSTRIES [2018] NZSC 36 (PDF 191 KB)
Substantive judgment — NORTHLAND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION SOCIETY INCORPORATED v CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE MINISTRY FOR PRIMARY INDUSTRIES [2018] NZSC 105 [9 November 2018] (PDF 475 KB)