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's Power to Create Oil Spill Clean-up Plan"

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You can think of a regional marine oil spill contingency plan as a plan to help clean up oil spills in the ocean. The Director is allowed to make this plan if the regional council does not make one as required by section 289 or section 290. If the Director makes the plan, the regional council has to pay for it. The regional council cannot get their money back from the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund for the costs of making the plan. This means the council has to use its own money to pay for the plan. The Director's job is to prepare the plan if the council does not do it. You should note that the plan is important for keeping our oceans clean. The Director and the regional council have to work together to make sure the plan is in place. This helps keep our environment 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

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.