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Fisheries Act 1996

Quota management system - Allocation of quota

46: Withholding of quota for non-payment of cost recovery levies or deemed values

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If you have a fishing permit and you haven't paid your levies under Part 14 or deemed value amounts, the chief executive can stop you getting your quota. The chief executive can do this until you pay the levies or deemed value amounts in full. This means you won't get the quota that you would normally get for your provisional catch history.

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Part 4Quota management system
Allocation of quota

46Withholding of quota for non-payment of cost recovery levies or deemed values

  1. If a fishing permit or an international fishing permit has been suspended under this Act for non-payment of levies payable under Part 14 or deemed value amounts payable under this Part, the chief executive may, until the levies or deemed value amounts are paid in full, withhold any quota that would, but for this section, have been allocated in respect of any provisional catch history held by the permit holder.

Notes
  • Section 46: amended, on , by section 9 of the Fisheries (International Fishing and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 18).
  • Section 46: amended, on , by section 18 of the Fisheries Amendment Act (No 3) 2004 (2004 No 76).