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Hauraki Gulf / Tīkapa Moana Marine Protection Act 2025

Permits, enforcement, and regulations for protected areas - Monitoring and enforcement - Infringement offences

55: Infringement offences

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You must not do certain things in protected areas. You cannot undertake prohibited activities in seafloor protection areas or high protection areas, which are explained in section 17, 18, and 21. You also cannot use or have things that were taken from protected areas against the rules. If you break these rules, you commit an infringement offence. You may have to pay an infringement fee or a fine. The amount you have to pay will be decided by the regulations or a court.

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Part 3Permits, enforcement, and regulations for protected areas
Monitoring and enforcement: Infringement offences

55Infringement offences

  1. A person must not—

  2. undertake a prohibited activity within a seafloor protection area contrary to section 17 or 18; or
    1. undertake a prohibited activity within a high protection area contrary to section 21; or
      1. use, dispose of, or be in possession of, any fish, aquatic life, seaweed, or natural material that has been removed from a protected area in contravention of section 17, 18, or 21.

        1. A person who contravenes subsection (1) commits an infringement offence and is liable to—

        2. an infringement fee of the amount prescribed in the regulations; or
          1. a fine imposed by a court not exceeding the amount prescribed in the regulations.