In 2011, Parliament passed legislation that struck a delicate balance between (a) access/navigation/development of our coastline and marine resources and (b) the "customary" use of foreshore and seabed resources by iwi, hapu and whanau. The statute provided Māori with customary rights of use, provided they could meet quite a high test that with respect to the area in question, they had "exclusively used and occupied it from 1840 to the present day without substantial interruption."