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Civil Aviation Act 1990

Functions, powers, and duties of participants in the civil aviation system

14B: Search and rescue operations

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“Rules for finding and helping people in danger”

You need to know about search and rescue operations in New Zealand. The Minister is in charge of this. Here’s what they do:

The Minister sets up and runs a centre to coordinate different types of search and rescue operations. This includes rescues for planes, ships, and other situations the Minister thinks are important.

The Minister can do what’s needed to make these rescue operations work well. They can also do things to follow international agreements about search and rescue that New Zealand has agreed to.

The Minister can choose people to help with or lead these rescue operations.

If someone helps with a rescue when asked, or if their vehicle, ship, or plane is used for a rescue when requested, the Minister can decide to pay them. This money comes from funds that Parliament has set aside for this purpose.

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Part 2 Functions, powers, and duties of participants in the civil aviation system

14BSearch and rescue operations

  1. The Minister—

  2. must establish, maintain, and operate a search and rescue co-ordination centre to co-ordinate and conduct—
    1. an aviation search and rescue operation; and
      1. a maritime search and rescue operation; and
        1. any other search and rescue operation that the Minister considers appropriate; and
        2. may exercise any powers that may be necessary or desirable—
          1. for the effective co-ordination and performance of a search and rescue operation specified in paragraph (a); and
            1. to implement any international convention or agreement relating to search and rescue to which New Zealand is a party; and
            2. may appoint persons to, either generally or in any particular case, participate in or co-ordinate a search and rescue operation specified in paragraph (a).

              1. The Minister may authorise the payment, out of money appropriated for the purpose by Parliament, of an amount that the Minister considers appropriate to—

              2. any person who assisted in a search and rescue operation specified in subsection (1)(a) at the request of a person appointed under subsection (1)(c); or
                1. the owner of any vehicle, ship, or aircraft used in a search and rescue operation specified in subsection (1)(a) in response to a request by a person appointed under subsection (1)(c).

                  Notes
                  • Section 14B: inserted, on , by section 4 of the Civil Aviation Amendment Act (No 2) 2004 (2004 No 95).