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Fisheries Act 1996

Miscellaneous provisions

300: Dockside monitoring

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"Rules for checking seafood when it's brought to shore"

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The Governor-General can make rules about monitoring what happens when fish and other seafood are brought to shore. You might need to land your catch at a certain place and time, and have someone there to check it. The rules can also say who gets to decide which places are used for landing and checking seafood. The Governor-General's rules can require people to tell someone before they land their catch. You might need to show your catch to an inspector, who checks that the information about it is correct. The inspector can tell you how to present your catch for checking. If someone is doing their job properly, the government is not responsible if something goes wrong. The rules made under this section are a type of law called secondary legislation, which has its own rules for publication, as outlined in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019. These rules are important for monitoring what happens to seafood when it is brought to shore.

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Part 16Miscellaneous provisions

300Dockside monitoring

  1. Without limiting the generality of section 297, the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

  2. requiring that fish, aquatic life, or seaweed be landed at designated landing sites or designated weighing stations, at specified times, with an appointed person present:
    1. providing for the designation of sites by the chief executive as landing sites or weighing stations, and providing for different sites to be so designated for different classes of vessels, stocks, or commercial fishers:
      1. requiring any owners, operators, or masters of vessels, or any permit holders, or any of them, to notify appointed persons of the intention to land fish, aquatic life, or seaweed:
        1. providing for the appointment of persons to inspect catch, and to monitor and verify the accuracy of any information recorded in the catch, effort, and landing returns (or other prescribed returns), and for the resignation or removal of such persons:
          1. empowering appointed persons to give directions as to the manner in which fish, aquatic life, or seaweed, or any prescribed returns, are to be presented for inspection:
            1. prescribing the form of documents to be completed, the time and manner in which such documents are to be completed, and the persons to whom completed documents are to be sent.

              1. The Crown, the chief executive, and appointed persons shall not be liable for any loss or damage caused as a result of any person lawfully carrying out functions or duties conferred or imposed by regulations made for any purpose referred to in subsection (1).

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

              Notes
              • Section 300(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).