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Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act 2025

Preliminary provisions

12: Immunities of warships, etc, not affected

You could also call this:

"This law does not change special rights of warships and some other ships and aircraft."

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This Act does not change the special rights of some ships and aircraft. You know that some ships and aircraft have special rights, like foreign warships. These special rights also apply to other foreign governmental ships that are not used for business, foreign military aircraft, and the people who work on these ships and aircraft.

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Part 1Preliminary provisions

12Immunities of warships, etc, not affected

  1. Nothing in this Act limits the immunities of the following:

  2. any foreign warship:
    1. any other foreign governmental ship operated for non-commercial purposes:
      1. any foreign military aircraft:
        1. members of the crew of a ship or an aircraft to which any of paragraphs (a) to (c) apply.