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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:

"Coastal councils must make a plan to clean up oil spills in their area"

If you are a regional council with a coastline, you must create a plan to deal with oil spills in your area. You will submit this plan to the Director for approval by a certain date that the Director sets. The Director will not set a date that is sooner than 12 months after three important things have been done under this Act: the first New Zealand marine oil spill response strategy, the first national marine oil spill contingency plan, and marine protection rules for regional plans. You will wait for these things to be ready before you submit your plan to the Director for approval.

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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.