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Maritime Transport Act 1994

Local regulation of maritime activity - Navigation bylaws

33Q: Entitlement to infringement fees

You could also call this:

"When you break a boat rule, the council keeps the fine money"

If you get an infringement fee for breaking a navigation rule, a regional council can keep the money. This happens if a harbourmaster or an enforcement officer from the council gives you the infringement notice under section 33O. The council can also keep the money if you break a maritime rule or a navigation bylaw that is an infringement offence under section 422.

The council can keep the money for breaking a maritime rule if it is prescribed as an infringement offence by regulations made under section 201(1)(b). You must have also received the infringement notice from a harbourmaster or an enforcement officer under section 423. The regional council is allowed to retain the infringement fee in these situations.

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Part 3ALocal regulation of maritime activity
Navigation bylaws

33QEntitlement to infringement fees

  1. A regional council is entitled to retain any infringement fee it receives in respect of an infringement offence—

  2. under section 33O if the infringement notice was issued by a harbourmaster or an enforcement officer of the council:
    1. under section 422 if—
      1. the infringement offence is a breach of a maritime rule or a navigation bylaw prescribed as an infringement offence by regulations made under section 201(1)(b); and
        1. the infringement notice was issued under section 423 by a harbourmaster or an enforcement officer of the council.

        Notes
        • Section 33Q: replaced, on , by section 31 of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2017 (2017 No 48).