If you have a regional marine oil spill contingency plan, it might not always be followed. You need to know that if this plan does not agree with the New Zealand marine oil spill response strategy, the national marine oil spill contingency plan, or the marine protection rules, then these other plans or rules will be used instead. This happens when there is a disagreement between the regional plan and one of these other plans or rules, and the other plan or rule will override the regional plan in that case.

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293: Amendment of regional marine oil spill contingency plans, or

"Changing local oil spill emergency plans to help keep our seas safe"

295: Power of Director to prepare regional marine oil spill contingency plan, or

"Director makes oil spill plan if council doesn't"

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

294Regional marine oil spill contingency plan overridden in certain cases

Where any regional marine oil spill contingency plan is inconsistent with the New Zealand marine oil spill response strategy, the national marine oil spill contingency plan, or the marine protection rules, that response strategy, national plan, or those marine protection rules shall override that regional marine oil spill contingency plan to the extent of the inconsistency.