Maritime Transport Act 1994

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

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

You could also call this:

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

The Director can make a plan to deal with oil spills in a region if the regional council does not submit a draft plan as required by section 289 or section 290. If the Director makes this plan, the regional council has to pay for the work the Director did. The council cannot get this money back from the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund.

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294: Regional marine oil spill contingency plan overridden in certain cases, or

"Some oil spill plans are overridden by stronger national rules"

296: Purpose of national marine oil spill contingency plan, or

"What's the plan for big oil spills in New Zealand's waters?"

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

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

The Director may prepare the regional marine oil spill contingency plan for a region where a regional council has not submitted a draft regional marine oil spill contingency plan in accordance with section 289 or section 290.
Where a regional marine oil spill contingency plan is prepared by the Director under subsection (1), the regional council responsible for the plan shall meet out of its own resources the costs of the Director in preparing the regional marine oil spill contingency plan, and shall not be entitled under any provision of this Act to reimbursement from the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund for those costs.