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Fisheries Act 1996

Access to fishery - Administration

102: Access to registers

You could also call this:

"Viewing fishing records and permits"

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You can look at the Permit Register, the Fishing Vessel Register, and the International Fishing Permit Register. You have to pay a fee if there is one and go during the hours stated in the Gazette under section 98(5). The chief executive can give you copies of all or part of a register if you ask and pay a reasonable charge. You can ask the chief executive not to share your address if you think it would be bad for your safety or your family's safety. The chief executive can then stop your address from being shared. This is done to protect you and your family. The chief executive is in charge of deciding what to do with your request. You can get copies of the registers if you follow the rules. The rules are in place to help you and others.

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Part 6Access to fishery
Administration

102Access to registers

  1. The Permit Register, the Fishing Vessel Register, and the International Fishing Permit Register are open for inspection by members of the public on payment of the prescribed fee (if any) during the hours stated by notice in the Gazette under section 98(5).

  2. Subject to subsection (3), the chief executive shall, upon request and payment of a reasonable charge fixed by the chief executive, supply to any person copies of all or any part of a register.

  3. If the chief executive is satisfied, on the application of any person, that the disclosure of that person's address (as entered in the register) would be prejudicial to the personal safety of that person or his or her family, the chief executive may direct that such information shall not be available for inspection or otherwise disclosed.

Compare
  • 1983 No 14 s 56
  • 1986 No 34 s 13(1)
Notes
  • Section 102 heading: amended, on , by section 217 of the Privacy Act 2020 (2020 No 31).
  • Section 102(1): amended, on , by section 16 of the Fisheries (International Fishing and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2025 (2025 No 18).
  • Section 102(1): amended, on , by section 217 of the Privacy Act 2020 (2020 No 31).
  • Section 102(1): amended, on , by section 11 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act (No 2) 1999 (1999 No 103).
  • Section 102(2): amended, on , pursuant to section 90(2) of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).
  • Section 102(3): amended, on , pursuant to section 90(2) of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).