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What advice, briefings, aides-memoire, memos, or other reports, if any, has the Minister received regarding whether the proposed conservation reforms could result in more conservation land becoming eligible for mining permits, listed by date and title?

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Steve Abel

List MP · Green Party

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  • What advice, briefings, aides-memoire, memos, or other reports, if any, has the Minister received regarding whether the proposed conservation reforms could result in more conservation land becoming eligible for mining permits, listed by date and title?

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Hon Tama Potaka

Member for Hamilton West · National Party · Minister of Conservation

Answer

This issue is out of scope of the Conservation Act reforms because the permitting of mining on Crown land is managed under the Crown Minerals Act 1991. Further advice on the Conservation Act reforms will be proactively released over the coming weeks.