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Maritime Transport Act 1994

General provisions relating to shipping - Safety services

200: Navigational aids

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"Helping boats navigate safely with signs and equipment near New Zealand's coasts and islands"

The Authority is in charge of managing navigational aids near New Zealand's coasts and islands, except for some that are managed by others. You need to know that navigational aids are important for helping boats and ships navigate safely. If you operate a port, cargo terminal, or other maritime facility, you are responsible for providing navigational aids for that facility.

The Authority can put up new navigational aids, change or remove existing ones, and check that they are working properly. A regional council can also put up navigational aids in its area, as long as it follows the rules set out in section 33I. If you are authorised, you can inspect navigational aids that are managed by an operator.

If an operator does not do what the Director asks, the Director can take action and the operator may have to pay the costs. You are not allowed to put up a navigational aid or change an existing one without the Director's approval. Navigational aids must be provided and maintained according to the maritime rules.

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Part 14General provisions relating to shipping
Safety services

200Navigational aids

  1. The Authority is responsible for the management of all navigational aids on or near the coasts of New Zealand and the adjacent seas and islands, except those to which subsection (2) applies.

  2. A person (including a local authority) who operates a port, cargo terminal, marina, jetty, marine farm, or other maritime facility (an operator) must provide navigational aids for that facility and is responsible for them.

  3. The Authority may—

  4. erect or place any navigational aid:
    1. add to, alter, remove, or maintain any navigational aid:
      1. inspect any navigational aid or property related to any navigational aid.

        1. A regional council may erect, place, and maintain navigational aids in its region in accordance with section 33I.

        2. Any person who is authorised by the Director for that purpose either generally or specially may inspect and examine any navigational aid that is under the management of an operator, and may for that purpose enter, with such assistants as he or she may deem necessary, any such navigational aid and any premises and property that is appurtenant to the navigational aid.

        3. An operator who operates a port must, as and when required by the Director, do such of the following in or for that port as the Director may require:

        4. erect lights, lay down buoys and beacons, and replace, remove, or discontinue any harbour light, signal, buoy, beacon, or other sea mark:
          1. make any variation in the character of any harbour light, signal, buoy, beacon, or other sea mark or in the mode of exhibiting it.

            1. If an operator fails or neglects to comply with a requisition made under subsection (5) within a reasonable period to be stated in the requisition,—

            2. the Director may take all such steps and do all such acts as may be necessary to give effect to the requisition; and
              1. the cost and charges of so doing are a debt due from the operator to the Crown, and may be recovered accordingly.

                1. No person may erect or place a navigational aid, alter the character of a navigational aid, or alter or remove the position of a navigational aid, without the approval of the Director.

                2. Navigational aids must be provided and maintained in accordance with, and otherwise conform with, the maritime rules.

                Compare
                • 1950 No 34 s 206
                • 1993 No 89 s 19
                Notes
                • Section 200: substituted, on , by section 21 of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 68).
                • Section 200(3A): inserted, on , by section 38 of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).