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[Extract from Deed of Trust]
THE OBJECTS and purposes for which the Trust are established are as follows:
THE preservation and improvement of public access to public lands and waters and throughout the New Zealand countryside in general and the retention in public ownership and control of all publicly owned lands and waters with value for public recreation and/or nature conservation, all inland and coastal waters, and recreational resources therein and in furtherance of these objects:
- To promote recognition of protection and enhancement of public recreational access as matters of national importance in law, official policy, and governmental practice.
- To promote public recognition of recreational, health, inspirational and other benefits derived to New Zealand of freely available recreational access for all.
- To monitor, research, and advocate public ownership and management over resources suited for public recreational use.
- To research the origin and status of public access rights, privileges, and public ownership and management over publicly held lands and waters, and to disseminate and publish the results of such research.
- To investigate mechanisms for public recreational access overseas that might have application to New Zealand.
- To establish links with organisations sharing interests in common with the Trust.
- To formulate policies for the better provision and management of public recreational access and use.
- To promote recreational practices conducive to the protection of natural and recreational resources.
- To encourage different outdoor recreational codes to work cooperatively towards furtherance of the objects of the Trust.
- To co-operate with other organisations or persons for the promotion of the above objectives in particular areas or generally.
- To seek and disburse funds for the promotion of the above objectives.
GENERALLY to carry out services in New Zealand which are beneficial to the community by promoting the objects set out in clause 1.
TO carry on any other charitable objects capable of being conveniently carried on in connection with the above objects or calculated directly or indirectly to advance the objects of the Trust or any of them.