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Fisheries Act 1996

Aquaculture - Fish farmers

186M: Access to Fish Farmer Register

You could also call this:

"Viewing the Fish Farmer Register costs a fee and has certain rules"

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You can look at the Fish Farmer Register if you pay a fee. The fee is set and you can look at the register during certain hours. These hours are stated in the Gazette under section 186K(5) which you can find at section 186K(5). You can ask for copies of the register and you will have to pay a reasonable charge. The chief executive sets this charge. If someone thinks their address in the register will put them or their family in danger, they can ask for it to be kept private. The chief executive can then stop their address from being shown. The government is not responsible if there are mistakes in the register or if a search is wrong. This means you cannot claim money if you lose something because of a mistake.

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Part 9AAquaculture
Fish farmers

186MAccess to Fish Farmer Register

  1. Repealed

  2. The Fish Farmer Register must be 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 186K(5).

  3. The Crown is not liable in damages for any loss or damage resulting from—

  4. any error in or omission from the Fish Farmer Register; or
    1. any inaccuracy in a search of the Fish Farmer Register.

      1. The chief executive must, on request and payment of a reasonable charge fixed by the chief executive, supply to any person copies of all or any part of the Fish Farmer Register.

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

      Notes
      • Section 186M: inserted, on , by section 8 of the Fisheries Amendment Act (No 3) 2004 (2004 No 104).
      • Section 186M(1): repealed, on , by section 217 of the Privacy Act 2020 (2020 No 31).