Description: This dataset is the definitive set of regional council boundaries for 2012 as defined by the Local Government Commission and/or the territorial authorities themselves but maintained by Statistics New Zealand (who are the custodian).The region is the top tier of local government in New Zealand. There are 16 regions of New Zealand (Part 1 of Schedule 2 of the Local Government Act 2002). Eleven are governed by an elected regional council, while five are governed by territorial authorities (the second tier of local government) who also perform the functions of a regional council and thus are known as unitary authorities. These unitary authorities are Auckland Council, Nelson City Council, Gisborne, Tasman, and Marlborough District Councils. The Chatham Islands Council also perform some of the functions of a regional council, but is not strictly a unitary authority. Unitary authorities act as regional councils for the purposes of a wide range of Acts and regulations. Regional council areas are based on water catchment areas. Regional councils are responsible for the administration of many environmental and public transport matters.
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Description: Geographical units devopled for all of New Zealand in which significant topgraphical, geological, climatic, soil and biological characteristics produce a particular landscape and biological community.This dataset was reprojected to account for land movement from the 2016 Kaikoura Earthquake on 4th March 2018 using a LINZ deformation model.
Description: This layer provides the currentprimary parcel polygons and some associated descriptive data that details the appellation (legal description), purpose, size and a list of titles that have an interest in the parcel.A primary parcel is a portion of land that is intended to be:• owned by the Crown, except moveable marginal strips• Held in fee simple (predominately private ownership)• Maori freehold land or Maori customary land• Public foreshore and seabed• The bed of a lake or river• Road or Railway• Vested in a local authority Primary parcels can be thought of as the 'base level' of all land making up New Zealand. Other 'levels' are NZ Non-primary parcels that essentially limit the full rights that would normally be associated with a primary parcel for example easements, covenants, leases and moveable marginal strips etc.This layer has a nominal accuracy of 0.1-1m in urban areas and 1-100m in rural areas. For more detailed information about parcel accuracies please refer to the survey boundary markslayer which contains accuracies for each parcel node. The combination of this layer with the non-primary parcels layer provides all current parcels for New Zealand (i.e. excludes Historic and Pending parcels)