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Radiocommunications Act 1989

Radio licences

115: Radiocommunication within territorial limits

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"Using radios on ships and planes in New Zealand's territory"

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You can use radio apparatus on ships or aircraft in New Zealand. The Governor-General can make rules about this. You must follow these rules when you are in New Zealand. The rules can include fines of up to $20,000 if you break them. You can be fined if you break the rules. Your ship or aircraft can be detained until the fine is paid. The Governor-General makes these rules with an Order in Council. These rules are called secondary legislation (see https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=DLM7298343 for publication requirements). The rules apply to all ships and aircraft in New Zealand. This includes merchant ships, aircraft, and foreign ships of war or military aircraft. You must follow the rules when you are in New Zealand's territorial limits.

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Part 13Radio licences

115Radiocommunication within territorial limits

  1. The Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations governing or prohibiting the use of radio apparatus on merchant ships, or on aircraft, of whatever nationality or registration, or on foreign ships of war or foreign military aircraft, while within the territorial limits of New Zealand.

  2. Any such regulations may prescribe fines, not exceeding $20,000 in any case, for any breach of the regulations and provide for the detention of any merchant ship or civil aircraft on which a breach of the regulations has been made, pending the institution and determination of proceedings in respect of the breach and pending the recovery of any fine imposed in respect of the breach.

  3. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

Notes
  • Section 115(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).