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Maritime Transport Act 1994

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444A: Power to require reception facilities

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"Ports must have facilities to safely dispose of harmful ship waste"

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The Director can ask you to provide a reception facility at your port in New Zealand. This facility must receive harmful substances, sediment, and Annex VI substances from ships. You can find the meaning of these terms in sections like section 222(1) and section 225. If you are asked to provide a reception facility, you must follow the marine protection rules. These rules are explained in section 222(1). You must comply with these rules. The Director's requirements apply to ports in New Zealand and New Zealand continental waters. You can find the meaning of New Zealand continental waters in section 222(1). Sediment is matter that settles out of ballast water in a ship, as defined in section 246A(1).

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Part 29Maritime New Zealand
General provisions

444APower to require reception facilities

  1. The Director may, by notice in writing, require any person who operates a port in New Zealand or in New Zealand continental waters to provide at that port a reception facility to receive from ships all or any of the following:

  2. harmful substances:
    1. sediment:
      1. Annex VI substances.

        1. A person required by the Director to provide a reception facility under subsection (1) must comply with the requirements of the marine protection rules.

        2. In this section,—

          Annex VI substance has the meaning given to it by section 222(1)

            harmful substance has the meaning given to it by section 225

              marine protection rules has the meaning given to it by section 222(1)

                New Zealand continental waters has the meaning given to it by section 222(1)

                  reception facility has the meaning given to it by section 222(1A)

                    sediment means matter that has settled out of ballast water (as defined in section 246A(1)) within a ship (as defined in section 246A(3)(a)).

                    Notes
                    • Section 444A: inserted, on , by section 17 of the Maritime Transport (MARPOL Annex VI) Amendment Act 2021 (2021 No 45).