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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

292: Approval of draft regional marine oil spill contingency plan

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"The Director checks and approves a regional council's oil spill plan, making sure it follows the rules."

When a regional council sends a draft plan to the Director, you need to know that the council must make changes if the Director asks. The Director can ask the council to add or remove parts of the plan that was sent under section 289 or section 290. The council has to make these changes right away. The Director gets to decide what changes are needed, but they cannot ask for changes that go against the marine protection rules. The Director will approve the plan once the changes have been made.

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

292Approval of draft regional marine oil spill contingency plan

  1. A regional council shall, forthwith upon being required by the Director to do so, include in, or omit from, its draft regional marine oil spill contingency plan submitted to the Director under section 289 or section 290 such provisions as the Director may specify.

  2. The Director may, in his or her sole discretion, determine what provisions (if any) he or she requires under subsection (1) to be included in or omitted from a draft regional marine oil spill contingency plan, except that the Director shall not require any inclusion or omission of a provision that will result in the plan being inconsistent with any relevant requirements of the marine protection rules.

  3. The Director shall, once his or her requirements (if any) under subsection (1) have been complied with, approve the relevant regional marine oil spill contingency plan.