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Marine and Coastal Area (Takutai Moana) Act 2011

Administrative and miscellaneous matters - Marine and coastal area register

116: Inspection and copying

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"View and copy important documents and orders"

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You can look at and copy all orders and documents in the register. You can get a copy if you ask and pay a fee, if there is one. The register has all the orders and documents, and you can see them. You can get a paper copy of an order or document if it is a paper record. If it is not a paper record, you can get a paper document with the same information. This means you can see what is in the order or document, even if it is not on paper. You have the right to get a copy of an order or document in the register. This is how you can find out what is in the orders and documents. You can ask for a copy and get one if you pay the fee.

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Part 4Administrative and miscellaneous matters
Marine and coastal area register

116Inspection and copying

  1. All orders and other documents contained in the register must be available for public inspection and copying, and copies may be supplied to any person upon request on payment of the prescribed fee (if any).

  2. The right to inspect and copy orders and other documents includes the right to receive,—

  3. in the case of an order or other document that is a paper record, a paper copy of the order or other document; and
    1. in the case of an instrument recorded by a process, system, or means other than as a paper record, a paper document that records the content of the instrument.