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Fisheries Act 1996

Cost recovery

271: Records and returns

You could also call this:

"Keeping records and sending information if you pay a fishing levy"

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The chief executive can ask you to keep records and provide returns if you have to pay a levy. They can also say how you must keep and provide these records and returns. You must do what the chief executive asks, or you might commit an offence and have to pay a penalty, which is explained in section 252(3). The chief executive's notice is a type of secondary legislation, which has its own publication requirements, as explained in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. If you do not comply with the chief executive's requirements, you will be liable to a penalty.

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Part 14Cost recovery

271Records and returns

  1. The chief executive may, by notice,—

  2. require records and returns to be kept and provided by a person who must pay a levy:
    1. prescribe conditions relating to the keeping and provision of those records and returns.

      1. A person commits an offence if the person fails to comply with a requirement imposed by the chief executive under subsection (1), and is liable to the penalty set out in section 252(3).

      2. A notice under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

      Notes
      • Section 271: substituted, on , by section 63 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).
      • Section 271(1): amended, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
      • Section 271(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).