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Maritime Transport Act 1994

Powers and duties of Director of Maritime New Zealand in relation to maritime activity - Inspection, investigation, detention, and rectification

54: Inspections and audits

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"Checks to keep you safe at sea"

The Director can ask you in writing to have inspections and audits done if you have a maritime document or if you work with ships or maritime products. This is to make sure everyone is safe at sea. The Director can ask you to do these inspections and audits for reasons related to maritime safety or the health and safety of seafarers, or to follow the rules in Parts 1 to 15.

The Director can also do inspections and audits themselves to check on you if you have a maritime document or work with ships or maritime products. They can ask you for information they think is relevant to the inspection or audit.

The Director can require you to show them that you and your crew know the essential procedures for safely operating a ship, and that you can do maintenance and servicing work competently.

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Part 5Powers and duties of Director of Maritime New Zealand in relation to maritime activity
Inspection, investigation, detention, and rectification

54Inspections and audits

  1. The Director may in writing require any person who—

  2. holds a maritime document; or
    1. operates, maintains, or services, or does any other act in respect of any ship or maritime product,—
        1. to undergo or carry out such inspections and such audits as the Director considers necessary in the interests of maritime safety or the health or safety of seafarers or for the purposes of any provision of any of Parts 1 to 15.

      1. The Director may, in respect of any person described in subsection (1), carry out such inspections and audits as the Director considers necessary in the interests of maritime safety or the health or safety of seafarers.

      2. For the purposes of any inspection or audit carried out in respect of any person under subsection (2), the Director may, in writing,—

      3. require from that person such information as the Director considers relevant to the inspection or audit:
        1. require that person to demonstrate to the Director the familiarity of the master or crew with essential shipboard procedures for the safe operation of the ship:
          1. require that person to demonstrate to the Director that any operational, maintenance, or servicing procedure in respect of a ship or a maritime product is capable of being carried out in a competent manner.

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