Maritime Transport Act 1994

Miscellaneous provisions applying to this Act generally - Detention of ship and distress on ship

462: Cost of detention and inspection to be paid by owner

You could also call this:

"Ship owners must pay for detention and inspection costs in New Zealand"

If you own a ship that is detained at a port in New Zealand, you have to pay for the costs of detaining it. You also have to pay for any inspections and audits that are done on the ship. You pay these costs to the Authority if the Director detained the ship, or to the Crown if someone else did. You have to pay these costs as a debt, and the Authority or the Crown can take you to court to get their money back. This rule does not change what is said in section 56 or section 398.

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Part 30Miscellaneous provisions applying to this Act generally
Detention of ship and distress on ship

462Cost of detention and inspection to be paid by owner

  1. Where any ship is detained at a port in New Zealand under or pursuant to this Act, the owner of the ship, or other person for the time being responsible for the navigation and management of the ship, shall be liable to pay to—

  2. the Authority where the ship is detained by the Director; or
    1. the Crown in any other case—
      1. the costs of and incidental to the detention and to any inspection and audit under this Act; and those costs shall, without prejudice to any other remedy, be recoverable as a debt due to the Authority or the Crown, as the case may be, in any court of competent jurisdiction.

      2. Nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of section 56 or section 398.

      Compare
      • 1952 No 49 s 492