Land Information New Zealand#Land management

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LINZ's purpose is to:

• Maintain and build confidence in property rights in land, geographic and hydrographic information.
• Encourage land information markets to develop and mature.

LINZ has three core roles:

• Transaction management – maintaining and operating the regulatory framework and systems for rights and transactions involving land.
• Information management – generating, collecting, compiling, and providing geographic and hydrographic information, and information relating to property rights and transactions.
• Land management – administering a range of Crown-owned lands for the benefit of the New Zealand public.

LINZ oversees the regulatory framework and systems for defining, and dealing in, property rights in land. Functions include:

• Maintaining and improving regulatory frameworks used to define and transact land.
• Administering the process by which land is transferred, including creating new titles, and recording changes of ownership and interests in land.
• Providing a secure environment for buying, selling and subdividing land through guaranteed titles for property dealings, and an accurate system of land boundary definition.
• Providing a nationally consistent valuation system for rating purposes.
• Administering New Zealand's inbound investment regime under the Overseas Investment Amendment Act 2018.

Beyond defining property rights, LINZ provides databases for New Zealand survey, mapping, hydrographic and property activities.{{Cite web|url=https://www.buildingbetter.nz/publications/homes_spaces/next_gen/Schindler_et_al_2018_IJSDIR.pdf|title=A multi-level perspective on a spatial data ecosystem: needs and challenges among urban planning stakeholders in New Zealand|last=Schindler|first=Mirjam|date=2018|website=Building Better Homes, Towns & Cities|access-date=March 20, 2020}} 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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2020}} It also assists with local and national government planning and management.{{Cite book|last=Kaganova|first=Olga|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rMSJj5XqIqIC&q=%28%22land+information+new+zealand%22+OR+%22LINZ%22%29+core+roles+-award&pg=PA88|title=Managing Government Property Assets: International Experiences|date=2006|publisher=The Urban Institute|isbn=978-0-87766-730-8|language=en}} LINZ 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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2020}}

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' – the official record of land boundary surveys.{{Cite web|url=https://www.beehive.govt.nz/sites/default/files/LINZ_BIM_0.pdf|title=Briefing to the Minister for Land Information|last=Land Information New Zealand (LINZ)|date=November 2008|website=Beehive.govt.nz|access-date=March 20, 2020}} 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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.anzsog.edu.au/preview-documents/case-study-level-1/156-linz-and-the-development-of-landonline-a-2006-48-1/file|title=LINZ and the development of Landonline|last=The Australia and New Zealand School of Government|date=2006|website=The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG)|access-date=March 20, 2020}}

LINZ manages almost three million hectares of Crown land, which is around 8% of New Zealand's land area.{{Citation needed|date=March 2020}} This includes 1.6 million hectares of high country pastoral land in the South Island, Crown forest land in 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:

• The acquisition, management and disposal of Crown land for which LINZ is responsible.
• The management of liabilities arising in relation to Crown land for which LINZ is responsible.
• The framework for disposal of Crown lands by other government agencies.

In carrying out these functions, LINZ has a number of statutory officers with specific functions under the various Acts LINZ administer – these are:

• Commissioner of Crown Lands
• Registrar-General of Land
• Surveyor-General, and
• Valuer-General.

In addition, LINZ has special responsibilities relating to land transactions under more than 50 other statutes.

• Overseas Investment Office
• New Zealand Geographic Board
• Surveying in New Zealand

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