Legal Status
Old baches often have 'existing use' rights under the Resource Management Act in areas where even such modest residential or part-time residential buildings would not be allowed by newer planning regulations. As such they are quite prized, even though authorities typically look unfavourably on proposals to convert them into full residential buildings.
Some baches whose construction was obviously legally dubious (such as those on Rangitoto Island) have been dismantled over time.
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“In the course of the actual attainment of selfish ends—an attainment conditioned in this way by universality—there is formed a system of complete interdependence, wherein the livelihood, happiness, and legal status of one man is interwoven with the livelihood, happiness, and rights of all. On this system, individual happiness, etc. depend, and only in this connected system are they actualized and secured.”
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