Part 14General provisions relating to shipping
Safety services
199Search and rescue operations
The Minister—
- must establish, maintain, and operate a search and rescue co-ordination centre to co-ordinate and conduct—
- an aviation search and rescue operation; and
- a maritime search and rescue operation; and
- any other search and rescue operation that the Minister considers appropriate; and
- an aviation search and rescue operation; and
- may exercise any powers that may be necessary or desirable—
- for the effective co-ordination and performance of a search and rescue operation specified in paragraph (a); and
- to implement any international convention or agreement relating to search and rescue to which New Zealand is a party; and
- for the effective co-ordination and performance of a search and rescue operation specified in paragraph (a); and
- may appoint persons to, either generally or in any particular case, participate in or co-ordinate a search and rescue operation specified in paragraph (a).
The Minister may authorise the payment, out of money appropriated for the purpose by Parliament, of an amount that the Minister considers appropriate to—
- any person who assisted in a search and rescue operation specified in subsection (1)(a) at the request of a person appointed under subsection (1)(c); or
- the owner of any vehicle, ship, or aircraft used in a search and rescue operation specified in subsection (1)(a) in response to a request by a person appointed under subsection (1)(c).
Compare
- 1990 No 98 s 14B
Notes
- Section 199: inserted, on , by section 478 of the Civil Aviation Act 2023 (2023 No 10).