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Maritime Transport Act 1994

Protection of marine environment from harmful substances - Obligations to protect marine environment from harmful substances

226: Harmful substances not to be discharged into sea or seabed of exclusive economic zone or continental shelf

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"Don't dump harmful substances in our ocean or seabed"

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You must not discharge harmful substances from a ship into the sea or onto the seabed in New Zealand's exclusive economic zone. You also must not discharge harmful substances into the sea or onto the seabed over the continental shelf. However, you can discharge a harmful substance if you follow the marine protection rules.

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Part 19Protection of marine environment from harmful substances
Obligations to protect marine environment from harmful substances

226Harmful substances not to be discharged into sea or seabed of exclusive economic zone or continental shelf

  1. This section applies to the discharge of harmful substances (other than a mining discharge).

  2. Harmful substances must not be discharged from a ship—

  3. into the sea within the exclusive economic zone; or
    1. into or onto the seabed below that sea.

      1. Harmful substances must not be discharged from a New Zealand ship or from a foreign ship that is involved in mining activity—

      2. into the sea beyond the outer limits of the exclusive economic zone but over the continental shelf; or
        1. into or onto the seabed below that sea.

          1. However, a harmful substance may be discharged if the substance is discharged in accordance with the marine protection rules.

          Notes
          • Section 226: replaced, on , by section 47(1) of the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 85).