This local bill amends the Auckland Harbour Board and Takapuna Borough Council Empowering Act 1923 to enable certain land owned by Takapuna Boating Club Inc to be used for commercial purposes. It was enacted as the Auckland Harbour Board and Takapuna Borough Council Empowering Amendment Act 2025.
This is a local bill — legislation dealing with a specific place or body rather than the whole country. It amends the Auckland Harbour Board and Takapuna Borough Council Empowering Act 1923, an old statute governing certain land at Takapuna on Auckland's North Shore. The change allows specified land occupied by Takapuna Boating Club Inc to be used for commercial purposes, which the existing restrictions on that land otherwise prevent. In practice this lets the club earn income — for example by leasing part of its premises to a café or other tenant — to help sustain and maintain its heritage clubrooms.
It is a local bill promoted on behalf of the boating club to modernise the narrow purposes for which the 1923 land may be used. Supporters argue it gives the club a durable revenue stream to preserve a heritage building and help activate the waterfront for public benefit. Critics of such changes generally question relaxing protections on reserve-type land dedicated to community and recreational use, and whether ongoing commercial activity is appropriate in that setting.
See the Parliament.nz ↗ site for the full bill.