Its requests that the Tribunal explain and articulate this balancing process should not be ignored, particularly in relation to the environment and future management of natural resources. However, the Crown submitted that the Tribunal should articulate fairly a process of balancing interests that the Crown should use to meet its obligations to Maori and other citizens. In practice, many of the matters of national importance listed in section 6 are likely to be compatible and complementary to section 6 e and f The Treaty requires Maori interests to be given significant weight and protection.
It contends that the Treaty itself requires a balancing of interests and that sections 6 and 7 of the Act merely indicate the interests that must be balanced in the context of the RMA. The combined effect is to give significant protection to Maori interests. However, the Crown is not responsible for the particular decisions that are made by those entities. Further than that it is unnecessary to go in this case The Crown is responsible for the parameters of the local government legislation and the related Resource Management Act RMA within which decisions are made by local and regional councils. We accept that s 4 of the Conservation Act requires the Marine Mammals Protection Act and Regulations to be interpreted and administered to give effect to the principles, at least to the extent that the provisions of the Marine Mammals Protection Act and Regulations are not clearly inconsistent with the principles. We note that the approach we take to the interpretation of statutory provisions will be consistent with that court s approach, as detailed in the following quotation : Statutory provisions for giving effect to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi in matters of interpretation and administration should not be narrowly construed.
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