Maritime Transport Act 1994

Plans and responses to protect marine environment from marine oil spills - Miscellaneous provisions relating to responses to marine oil spills

328: Contracts

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"Who can make contracts to help with an oil spill"

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When a marine oil spill happens, you need to know that some people can make contracts on behalf of the regional council. These people include the chairperson, deputy chairperson, and other employees specified in the regional marine oil spill contingency plan. They can enter into contracts for the purposes of responding to the oil spill. You should be aware that if someone makes a contract, they must tell the regional council about it at the next meeting. This is so the council knows what is happening. The person must report the full circumstances of the contract. The rules about contracts are a bit different because of the Public Bodies Contracts Act 1959 and the Local Government Act 2002. But in this case, the regional council's employees can still make contracts when needed. This helps them respond to the oil spill quickly.

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Part 23Plans and responses to protect marine environment from marine oil spills
Miscellaneous provisions relating to responses to marine oil spills

328Contracts

Notwithstanding anything in the Public Bodies Contracts Act 1959, the Local Government Act 2002, or any other enactment, the chairperson, deputy chairperson, chief executive, treasurer, engineer, or any other employee of a regional council specified in the regional marine oil spill contingency plan, or any regional on-scene commander, may from time to time, when a marine oil spill response is determined to be needed, enter into any contract on behalf of the regional council for any of the purposes of this Part.
Any person who exercises the power conferred by this section shall report the full circumstances of its exercise to the regional council at its next ordinary meeting, or where that is not practicable, at its next succeeding ordinary meeting.

Compare

1983 No 46 s 68(1), (3)

Notes

Section 328(1): amended, on 1 July 2003, by section 262 of the Local Government Act 2002 (2002 No 84).