9-450: Toitū Te Whenua Land Information New Zealand ( LINZ ) 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
18-616: Is a former department of the New Zealand Government . It was formed in April 1987 as a restructuring of the Department of Lands and Survey . The Department of Lands and Survey was established in 1876 with a wide range of responsibilities, including survey, health and tourist resorts, immigration, Crown lands and roads. Forests and agriculture were added in 1886. Over the years, many of these responsibilities passed to other departments, and by
27-535: 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. 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' –
36-507: The 1980s Lands and Survey's core responsibilities included survey, land development , mapping, lands and deeds and Crown land. In the 1987 restructuring, the Department of Survey and Land Information was set up to provide government civil and military survey mapping and land information services. Land development activities were placed with a state-owned enterprise . Conservation management roles were placed with new departments. In July 1996,
45-405: The Department of Survey and Land Information was itself restructured into Land Information New Zealand , vested with core government land-related regulatory and purchase functions, while the former department's commercial activities were vested with Terralink NZ Ltd, then a state-owned enterprise and now a private company, Terralink International . This government of New Zealand–related article
54-630: 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: 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. Department of Survey and Land Information The Department of Survey and Land Information ( DOSLI )
63-487: The official record of land boundary surveys. 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. LINZ manages almost three million hectares of Crown land, which is around 8% of New Zealand's land area. This includes 1.6 million hectares of high country pastoral land in the South Island, Crown forest land in
72-658: The post since 2016. LINZ's purpose is to: LINZ has three core roles: LINZ oversees the regulatory framework and systems for defining, and dealing in, property rights in land. Functions include: Beyond defining property rights, LINZ provides databases for New Zealand survey, mapping, hydrographic and property activities. 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. It also assists with local and national government planning and management. LINZ
81-603: 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 . The New Zealand Geographic Board secretariat is part of LINZ and provides the Board with administrative and research assistance and advice. The Minister for Land Information is Chris Penk . Gaye Searancke was appointed Chief Executive of Land Information New Zealand in August 2019. She succeeded Andrew Crisp, who had been in
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