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Fisheries Act 1996

Access to fishery - Administration

98: Registers

You could also call this:

"Records of Fishing Information"

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The chief executive keeps some registers. You can think of a register like a big book that stores information. The chief executive keeps a Fishing Vessel Register, a Permit Register, and an International Fishing Permit Register. These registers can be kept on a computer. The chief executive can keep these registers with other registers. The Crown owns the information in these registers that the law says must be included. The chief executive decides where the registers are kept and when they are open for you to look at. The law also says that regulations can be made about how the registers work, including sending information electronically. This is related to section 297, which has more information about this topic.

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Part 6Access to fishery
Administration

98Registers

  1. The chief executive shall keep the following registers:

  2. a register to be called the Fishing Vessel Register:
    1. a register to be called the Permit Register:
      1. a register to be called the International Fishing Permit Register.

        1. The registers may be kept in the form of information stored by means of a computer.

        2. The registers may be kept in conjunction with any other register required to be kept under this Act.

        3. The Crown owns all information contained in the Fishing Vessel Register or the Permit Register or the International Fishing Permit Register that is required by this Act to be contained in that register.

        4. The chief executive shall, by notice in the Gazette, appoint the places at which the registers are to be located and state the hours when they are to be open for inspection by the public.

        5. Without limiting anything in section 297, regulations under that section may provide for the operation of registers under this section, including the electronic transmission of information for the purposes of this Part.

        Notes
        • Section 98(1)(c): added, on , by section 9(1) of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act (No 2) 1999 (1999 No 103).
        • Section 98(1)(c): amended, on , by section 14 of the Fisheries (International Fishing and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 18).
        • Section 98(4): amended, on , by section 14 of the Fisheries (International Fishing and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 18).
        • Section 98(4): amended, on , by section 9(2) of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act (No 2) 1999 (1999 No 103).