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Fisheries Act 1996

Observer programme

227A: Installation and maintenance of equipment on vessels may be required

You could also call this:

"Boats may need special equipment to monitor fishing activities"

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The chief executive can require a vessel to have special equipment to observe fishing and related activities. This equipment must be installed and maintained according to regulations made under section 297(1)(ca). You can find out what these activities are by looking at the definition of fisheries services in section 2(1). The chief executive also has the power to require this equipment to be used during a vessel’s voyage. This means you might need to use the equipment all the time or just at certain times while you are on the vessel.

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Part 12Observer programme

227AInstallation and maintenance of equipment on vessels may be required

  1. The chief executive may require, in relation to any vessel, that specified equipment to observe fishing and related activities described in paragraph (e) of the definition of fisheries services in section 2(1) be installed and maintained on the vessel in accordance with regulations made under section 297(1)(ca).

  2. Subsection (1) includes power to require that specified equipment be operated throughout or at any time during a vessel’s voyage.

Notes
  • Section 227A: inserted, on , by section 13 of the Fisheries (Foreign Charter Vessels and Other Matters) Amendment Act 2014 (2014 No 60).
  • Section 227A(1): amended, on , by section 10(1) of the Fisheries Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 56).
  • Section 227A(2): inserted, on , by section 10(2) of the Fisheries Amendment Act 2022 (2022 No 56).