Fisheries Act 1996

Registration of transfers, mortgages, caveats, etc - Registration procedure

158: Priority according to time of registration

You could also call this:

"First in, first served: registrations are processed in the order they are received"

When you register something under the Fisheries Act 1996, it gets registered in the order it is received. The chief executive records the time they get the registration, and that time decides the order. You can find more information about when an instrument is treated as received in regulations made under section 297. The chief executive's recorded time is what matters when deciding the order of registrations.

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Environment and resources > Farming and fishing

157: Application for registration, or

"How to Apply for Registration to Fish in New Zealand"

159: Registration procedure, or

"How to Register Something Under the Fisheries Act"

Part 8Registration of transfers, mortgages, caveats, etc
Registration procedure

158Priority according to time of registration

Instruments presented for registration under this Act shall be registered in the chronological order in which they are received by the chief executive; and, for the purposes of determining the chronological order of instruments received at the same or different places, the time recorded by the chief executive as having received the instrument is conclusive as to the order in which an instrument was received.
Regulations under section 297 may prescribe when an instrument is to be treated as received for registration.

Compare

1989 No 148 s 15

Notes

Section 158(1): amended, on 9 September 1999, pursuant to section 90(2) of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).
Section 158(2): substituted, on 1 October 2001, by section 17 of the Fisheries (Remedial Issues) Amendment Act 2001 (2001 No 33).