Land Information New Zealand

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Land Information New Zealand
Toitū Te Whenua (Māori)
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Agency overview
Formed1 July 1996;28 years ago (1996-07-01)
Preceding agency
Jurisdiction New Zealand
HeadquartersRadio New Zealand House,
155 The Terrace,
Wellington
WELLINGTON 6011
Annual budgetVote Lands
Total budget for 2019/20
Decrease2.svg$494,024,000 [1]
Minister responsible
Agency executive
  • Gaye Searancke, Chief Executive
Child agencies
Website www.linz.govt.nz

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ; Māori : Toitū Te Whenua) is the public service department of New Zealand charged with geographical information and surveying functions as well as handling land titles, and managing Crown land and property. The minister responsible is the Minister for Land Information, and was formerly the Minister of Survey and Land Information. LINZ was established in 1996 following the restructure of the Department of Survey and Land Information (DOSLI), which was itself one of the successor organisations to the Department of Lands and Survey. [2]

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The New Zealand Geographic Board secretariat is part of LINZ and provides the Board with administrative and research assistance and advice. [3]

The Minister for Land Information is Chris Penk. [4]

Gaye Searancke was appointed Chief Executive of Land Information New Zealand in August 2019. [5] She succeeded Andrew Crisp, who had been in the post since 2016. [6]

Nature and scope of functions

LINZ's purpose is to:

LINZ has three core roles:

Transaction management

LINZ oversees the regulatory framework and systems for defining, and dealing in, property rights in land. Functions include:

Information management

Beyond defining property rights, LINZ provides databases for New Zealand survey, mapping, hydrographic and property activities. [7] The organisation's geographic information serves a variety of purposes, ranging from supporting essential services such as national security, and emergency service responses, to defining electoral boundaries, and enabling commercial applications.[ citation needed ] It also assists with local and national government planning and management. [8] LINZ is also the organisation responsible for the surveying and production of all official maritime sea charts and Notices to Mariners covering New Zealand waters and certain areas of Antarctica and the South-West Pacific.[ citation needed ]

Through the Landonline system, LINZ provides property professionals with online access to New Zealand's title register – the national database of property ownership – and New Zealand's 'cadastre' – the official record of land boundary surveys. [9] Landonline is used by surveyors, lawyers, conveyancers and other professionals to securely search, lodge and update title dealings and survey data, digitally, in real time. [10]

Land management

LINZ manages almost three million hectares of Crown land, which is around 8% of New Zealand's land area.[ citation needed ] This includes 1.6 million hectares of high country pastoral land in the South Island, Crown forest land in the North Island, approximately 4,000 properties, and river and lake beds. In managing Crown land, LINZ aims to protect New Zealanders’ interests by putting this land to best use. Functions include:

Statutory positions

In carrying out these functions, LINZ has a number of statutory officers with specific functions under the various Acts LINZ administer – these are:

In addition, LINZ has special responsibilities relating to land transactions under more than 50 other statutes.

See also

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References

  1. "Total Appropriations for Each Vote". Budget 2019. The Treasury.
  2. "Our Whakapapa". LINZ.
  3. "NZGB members". Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand. 21 May 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2021.
  4. "Ministerial List". Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet . Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  5. "Chief executive LINZ appointed" (Press release). State Services Commission. 14 May 2019. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  6. "Andrew Crisp appointed as LINZ Chief Executive" (Press release). State Services Commission. 26 October 2016. Retrieved 16 September 2019.
  7. Schindler, Mirjam (2018). "A multi-level perspective on a spatial data ecosystem: needs and challenges among urban planning stakeholders in New Zealand" (PDF). Building Better Homes, Towns & Cities. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  8. Kaganova, Olga (2006). Managing Government Property Assets: International Experiences. The Urban Institute. ISBN   978-0-87766-730-8.
  9. Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) (November 2008). "Briefing to the Minister for Land Information" (PDF). Beehive.govt.nz. Retrieved 20 March 2020.
  10. The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (2006). "LINZ and the development of Landonline". The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG). Retrieved 20 March 2020.