This Act includes some parts of the Fisheries Act 1996, from sections 56 to 58B. You can think of these parts as the overseas investment fishing provisions. When this Act refers to itself, it also means these overseas investment fishing provisions. You can find more information about how to understand these provisions in section 57A of the Fisheries Act 1996. The overseas investment fishing provisions are part of this Act, even though they originally come from the Fisheries Act 1996.

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4: Overview, or

"What the Overseas Investment Act 2005 is about and how it works in New Zealand"

6: Interpretation, or

"What words in the Overseas Investment Act 2005 mean"

Part 1Preliminary provisions

5Act incorporates sections 56 to 58B of Fisheries Act 1996

This Act incorporates sections 56 to 58B of the Fisheries Act 1996 (which in this section are called the overseas investment fishing provisions) as if they were part of this Act, so that a reference in this Act to this Act includes a reference to the overseas investment fishing provisions.
See section 57A of the Fisheries Act 1996 for further provisions on the interpretation of the overseas investment fishing provisions.