What is the Section 9 that comes up in the asset sales debate?

" When the Fourth Labour Government began to implement its economic reforms in 1984, Mäori expressed concern that the Crown might divest itself of resources which could be used as redress for Treaty breaches. In 1986, Parliament enacted the State-Owned Enterprises Act, including section nine, which required that the Act be implemented in accordance with the principles of the Treaty. The first major Court of Appeal case of the “new era” of Treaty jurisprudence, New Zealand Mäori Council v Attorney-General [1987] 1 NZLR 641 (the Lands case) concerned the interpretation of this section."

Te Puni Kokiri: A guide to the principles of the Treaty of Waitangi as expressed by the courts & the Waitangi Tribunal

Some useful links
1986 Legislation

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