New Zealand Legislation: Acts

1 Short Title and commencement

• (1) This Act may be cited as the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999, and is part of the Fisheries Act 1996 (“the principal Act”).

  (2) This section and sections 2 to 8, 11 to 16, 64 to 72, 77 to 83, and 85 to 90, and the Schedules, come into force on the day after the date on which this Act receives the Royal assent.

  (3) Sections 17 to 21 come into force on 1 October 1999.

  (4) The other provisions of this Act come into force on a date to be appointed by the Governor-General by Order in Council; and 1 or more Orders in Council may be made appointing different dates for different provisions and for different purposes.

  (5) Section 1 of the principal Act is amended by inserting, after subsection (2), the following subsection:

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