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Maritime Transport Act 1994

Plans and responses to protect marine environment from marine oil spills - Regional marine oil spill contingency plans

289: Initial regional marine oil spill contingency plans

You could also call this:

"Planning to Stop Oil Spills in Our Coastal Regions"

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You need to make a plan if you are in charge of a region with a coastline. You must send a draft plan to the Director by a certain date. The Director will tell you when the plan is due. The date the Director sets cannot be sooner than 12 months after some important things are ready. These things include a New Zealand marine oil spill response strategy and a national marine oil spill contingency plan. The Director must also have marine protection rules ready. You will know what to include in your plan because the marine protection rules will say what is required. The Director will look at your plan and decide if it is okay. You are making this plan to help keep your region's coastline safe from oil spills.

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Part 23Plans and responses to protect marine environment from marine oil spills
Regional marine oil spill contingency plans

289Initial regional marine oil spill contingency plans

  1. Every regional council whose region includes any coastline shall, by a date specified by the Director for the purpose, submit to the Director for his or her approval a draft regional marine oil spill contingency plan for its region.

  2. Any date or dates specified by the Director for the purposes of subsection (1) shall not be earlier than 12 months after all of the following have been prepared or issued, as the case may be, under this Act:

  3. the first New Zealand marine oil spill response strategy:
    1. the first national marine oil spill contingency plan:
      1. marine protection rules prescribing requirements for regional marine oil spill contingency plans.