New Zealand Legislation: Acts
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(1) Every ranger may, in the exercise of his or her duty and upon production of his or her warrant of appointment (if so required),—
(a) Require any person whom he or she reasonably believes to have committed or to be committing or about to commit an offence against this Act or any regulations made under this Act to refrain or desist from that act:
(b) Require any person whom he or she reasonably believes to have committed or to be committing or about to commit an offence against this Act or any regulations made under this Act to give his or her full name and residential address and to produce evidence of those particulars:
(c) Pursue and apprehend, without warrant, any person whom he or she reasonably believes to have committed or to be committing an offence against this Act or any regulations made under this Act:
(d) Stop any vessel, vehicle, or other conveyance, or any aircraft while on the ground or on the water, or any other device for carriage or transportation, or stop in transit any parcel, package, case, bag, luggage, or other container that is or that he or she reasonably believes to be in the possession of the owner or of any other person (including any carrier or forwarding agent, whether by land, sea, or air), if he or she reasonably believes that any breach of this Act or of any regulation made under this Act has been committed by the owner or by the person in possession thereof or by any other person, and, in the presence of the owner or other person or of any servant of any of them, enter and search any such vessel, vehicle, other conveyance, aircraft, or other device, and in such presence open and search any such parcel, package, case, bag, luggage, or other container.
(2) The powers of a ranger under this Act shall be exercisable within any marine reserve; and if a ranger is in fresh pursuit of an offender the ranger may, without warrant, apprehend the offender outside a marine reserve and may exercise any power conferred on a ranger by this Act.
Subsection (1)(a) was amended, as from 10 April 1990, by section 55(a) Conservation Law Reform Act 1990 (1990 No 31) by substituting the words “Director-General”
for the words “management committee for that reserve”
.
Subsection (1)(f) was amended, as from 10 April 1990, by section 55(b) Conservation Law Reform Act 1990 (1990 No 31) by substituting the words “reasonably believes”
for the words “has reason to suspect”
.
The words “Director-General”
were substituted, as from 1 September 1972, for the words “Secretary for Marine”
pursuant to section 6(1) Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Amendment Act 1972 (1972 No 3).
Section 18 was substituted, as from 1 October 1996, by section 316(1) Fisheries Act 1996 (1996 No 88). See clause 2 Fisheries Act Commencement Order (No 2) 1996 (SR 1996/255).
