Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017

CLAIM CONNECTIONS / 5

Where this source is used

• The Te Awa Tupua Act declares Te Awa Tupua a legal person with corresponding rights, powers, duties, and liabilities.

  • supports · sections 12 and 14–16

• The Act recognizes Te Awa Tupua as an indivisible living whole from the mountains to the sea, incorporating physical and metaphysical elements.

  • supports · sections 12–13

• The Act sets out Tupua te Kawa as intrinsic values and requires relevant actors to recognize the relationship of Whanganui iwi and hapū with Te Awa Tupua.

  • supports · section 13 and sections 29–37

• The Act establishes Te Pou Tupua as the human face of Te Awa Tupua and provides for two appointees acting as one office.

  • supports · sections 18–23

• The Te Awa Tupua framework is a Whanganui iwi–Crown settlement and legal-governance arrangement grounded in Whanganui relationships and law; placing it near environmentalism does not reclassify those relationships as an environmental ideology.

  • supports · long title; sections 3, 12–20, and 69–71