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Fisheries Act 1996

Access to fishery - Fishing vessel registration

111: Fish on registered vessel deemed to have been taken for purpose of sale

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"Fish on your registered boat is assumed to be for selling, unless you have approval."

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You have a fishing vessel registered under the Fisheries Act 1996. If you have fish, aquatic life, or seaweed on your vessel, it is assumed you caught it to sell, unless you have a special approval from the chief executive. You must follow the conditions of this approval and get it before you take the fish, aquatic life, or seaweed. This rule does not apply if you caught the fish, aquatic life, or seaweed lawfully under regulations made under section 186. You need to know about these rules to follow the law when fishing with a registered vessel.

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Part 6Access to fishery
Fishing vessel registration

111Fish on registered vessel deemed to have been taken for purpose of sale

  1. For the purposes of this Act, all fish, aquatic life, or seaweed that is on board, or landed from, or transhipped from, any fishing vessel or fish carrier registered under this Act is deemed to have been taken or possessed for the purpose of sale, unless—

  2. the taking or possession of the fish, aquatic life, or seaweed was in accordance with a general or particular approval of the chief executive and with any conditions imposed on that approval; and
    1. the taking or possession occurred after that approval was given.

      1. Subsection (1) does not apply if the fish, aquatic life, or seaweed were lawfully taken under regulations made under section 186.

      Compare
      • 1983 No 14 s 102
      • 1986 No 34 s 27(1)
      Notes
      • Section 111(1): substituted, on , by section 40 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).