Coastal Marine Area

   12. Restrictions on use of coastal marine area---(1) No person may---
   (a) Reclaim or drain any foreshore or seabed; or
   (b) Erect, reconstruct, place, alter, extend, remove, or demolish any
         structure or any part of a structure that is fixed in, on,
         under, or over any foreshore or seabed; or
   (c) Disturb any foreshore or seabed (including by excavating,
         drilling, or tunnelling) in a manner that has or is likely to
         have an adverse effect on the foreshore or seabed (other than
         for the purpose of lawfully harvesting any plant or animal); or
   (d) Deposit in, on, or under any foreshore or seabed any substance in
         a manner that has or is likely to have an adverse effect on the
         foreshore or seabed; or
   (e) Destroy, damage, or disturb any foreshore or seabed (other than
         for the purpose of lawfully harvesting any plant or animal) in a
         manner that has or is likely to have an adverse effect on plants
         or animals or their habitat; or
   (f) Introduce or plant any exotic or introduced plant in, on, or under
         the foreshore or seabed---

 unless expressly allowed to do so by a rule in a regional coastal plan
 or a resource consent.

   (2) No person may do any of the following in relation to land in the
 coastal marine area of the Crown or land vested in the regional council:
   (a) Occupy the land:
   (b) Remove any sand, shingle, or other natural material from the
         land,---

 unless expressly allowed to do so by a rule in a regional plan or a
 resource consent.

   (3) Without limiting subsection (1), no person may carry out any
 activity---
   (a) In, on, under, or over any coastal marine area; or
   (b) In relation to any natural and physical resources contained within
         any coastal marine area,---

 in a manner that contravenes a rule in a regional coastal plan or a
 proposed regional coastal plan unless the activity is expressly allowed
 by a resource consent or allowed by section 20 (certain existing lawful
 activities allowed).

   (4) In this section and in section 13 (1),---
   (a) ``Occupy'' means occupy to the exclusion of other persons for a
         period of time and in a way that, but for the rule in the
         regional coastal plan or the holding of a resource consent, a
         lease or licence to occupy the space would be necessary:
   (b) ``Remove any sand, shingle, or other natural material'' means to
         take any of that material in such quantities or in such
         circumstances that, but for the rule in the regional coastal
         plan or the holding of a resource consent, a licence or profit
         prendre to do so would be necessary.