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Maritime Transport Act 1994

Plans and responses to protect marine environment from marine oil spills - Oil Pollution Advisory Committee

282: Oil Pollution Advisory Committee

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"A group that advises on oil spill issues and helps keep our seas clean."

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You have a committee called the Oil Pollution Advisory Committee. It gives advice to the Authority on things like the New Zealand Marine Oil Spill Response Strategy and the use of the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund. The Minister appoints people to this committee. The Minister chooses who is on the committee, including a chairperson. When choosing members, the Minister thinks about whether the committee should have people who know about the shipping industry, the oil and gas industry, and other related areas. The committee can decide how it wants to work, as long as it follows any directions from the Minister. The Minister decides the terms and conditions for committee members, including what they get paid for travel. This money comes from the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund. The committee advises the Authority on oil pollution levies imposed under Part 24, and on other matters related to marine oil spills that the Minister or Director specifies.

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Part 23Plans and responses to protect marine environment from marine oil spills
Oil Pollution Advisory Committee

282Oil Pollution Advisory Committee

  1. There shall continue to be a committee, to be called the Oil Pollution Advisory Committee, to give advice to the Authority on the following matters:

  2. the New Zealand Marine Oil Spill Response Strategy:
    1. the fixing and levying of oil pollution levies imposed under Part 24:
      1. the use of the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund:
        1. any other matters related to marine oil spills that the Minister, or the Director, from time to time specifies by notice to the Committee.

          1. The Minister shall appoint to the Committee—

          2. the Director; and
            1. such other persons as the Minister from time to time determines; and
              1. a chairperson of the Committee.

                1. The Minister shall, in appointing members of the Committee, consider whether the Committee should have members who represent, or have experience relating to, the following:

                2. the shipping industry:
                  1. the oil and gas exploration industry:
                    1. the oil and gas production and distribution industry:
                      1. the Petroleum Industry Emergency Action Committee:
                        1. operators of port facilities:
                          1. regional councils:
                            1. Maritime New Zealand:
                              1. the Ministry of Transport:
                                1. the Ministry for the Environment:
                                  1. the Department of Conservation:
                                    1. Te Puni Kokiri.

                                      1. The Committee may, subject to any written directions of the Minister, regulate its procedure as it thinks fit.

                                      2. Members of the Committee shall be appointed on such terms and conditions (including travelling allowances and expenses) as the Minister from time to time determines.

                                      3. Any travelling allowances and expenses determined by the Minister under subsection (5) shall be paid out of the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund.

                                      Compare
                                      • 1974 No 14 s 29G
                                      • 1977 No 130 s 3
                                      Notes
                                      • Section 282(3)(g): substituted, on , by section 11(2) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 98).