New Zealand Legislation: Acts

1 Short Title and commencement

• (1) This Act may be cited as the Fisheries Act 1996.

  (2) Subject to subsection (3) of this section, this Act shall come into force on a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council; and different dates may be so appointed by one or more Orders in Council for different provisions and different purposes.

  (2A) Despite subsection (2), sections 56, 57, 58, 62, and 358 come into force on 1 October 1999.

  (3) Sections 332 and 333 of this Act shall come into force on the 1st day of March 1997.

  Subsection (2A) was inserted, as from 9 September 1999, by section 1(5) Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).