Maritime Transport Act 1994

Protection of marine environment beyond New Zealand continental waters from dumping, incineration, and storing of wastes - Obligations in respect of dumping, storing, and incineration of wastes

262B: Conditions of emergency dumping permit

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"Rules for emergency dumping at sea"

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You can get an emergency dumping permit, but it may have conditions. The Director must include a condition that you follow the International Maritime Organization's dumping procedures. The Director decides if this is practical based on how urgent the situation is. You may need to monitor and report on the effects of dumping waste. The Director can also require you to keep records of what was dumped and where. You might need to give the Director specific information about the permit. The Director can include any conditions they think are necessary to protect the environment and human health. This is to deal with the effects of dumping waste or other matter. The conditions are part of the emergency dumping permit.

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Part 21Protection of marine environment beyond New Zealand continental waters from dumping, incineration, and storing of wastes
Obligations in respect of dumping, storing, and incineration of wastes

262BConditions of emergency dumping permit

An emergency dumping permit may be granted subject to conditions.
The Director must include as a condition on an emergency dumping permit a requirement that the person granted the permit complies with any procedures for dumping recommended by the International Maritime Organization and specified on the permit.
Subsection (2) applies only to the extent that the Director considers the conditions practicable after taking into account the urgency of the situation.
The Director may include any conditions that he or she considers appropriate to deal with the effects of the dumping of waste or other matter on the environment or on human health or safety, including conditions that require the person issued with the permit to—
monitor, and report to the Director on, the exercise of the permit and the effects of the dumping on the environment and human health and safety:
keep and maintain records of the waste or other matter dumped and the location of the dumping:
provide the Director with any specified information that relates to the permit or its exercise.

Notes

Section 262B: inserted, on 31 October 2015, by section 47(1) of the Exclusive Economic Zone and Continental Shelf (Environmental Effects) Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 85).