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Marine Mammals Protection Amendment Act 1994

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Act Repealed Latest version as at 25 November 1994 (as enacted) | 1994 No 111

Marine Mammals Protection Amendment Act 1994

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Marine Mammals Protection Amendment Act 1994

Public Act
  
1994 No 111
Date of assent
  
25 November 1994
 

Contents

Title
1 Short Title and commencement
2 Conservation management plans
3 Restrictions on holding or taking marine mammals
4 Application for permits
Administrative information

An Act to amend the Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978

BE IT ENACTED by the Parliament of New Zealand as follows:

1 Short Title and commencement

(1)

This Act may be cited as the Marine Mammals Protection Amendment Act 1994, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Marine Mammals Protection Act 1978 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).

(2)

Except as provided in section 3(2) of this Act, this Act shall come into force on the day on which it receives the Royal assent.

2 Conservation management plans

Section 3d(2) of the principal Act (as inserted by section 107 of the Conservation Law Reform Act 1990) is hereby amended by inserting, after the expression “17g,”, the expression “17h, 17i,”.

3 Restrictions on holding or taking marine mammals

(1)

Section 4 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsection (1), and substituting the following subsections:

“(1)

Notwithstanding anything in any other enactment, but subject to this Act, no person shall—

“(a)

Hold a marine mammal in captivity; or

“(b)

Take any marine mammal, whether alive or dead, in or from its natural habitat or in or from any other place—

without first obtaining a permit to do so from the Minister or from any person or persons authorised in that behalf by the Minister.

“(1a)

The Minister may from time to time, by notice in the Gazette, prescribe criteria and standards in respect of any kind of permit referred to in subsection (1) of this section; and the prescribed criteria and standards shall be deemed to form part of permits of that kind and shall be complied with accordingly.”

(2)

Section 4(1) of the principal Act (as substituted by subsection (1) of this section) shall come into force 6 months after the commencement of this Act.

4 Application for permits

(1)

Section 5(1) of the principal Act is hereby amended by inserting, after the words “obtain a permit to”, the words “hold or”.

(2)

Section 5(5) of the principal Act is hereby amended by adding the following proviso:

“Provided that nothing in this subsection applies to an application for a permit to take whalebone from dead whales.”

This Act is administered in the Department of Conservation.
Act Repealed Latest version as at 25 November 1994 (as enacted)

Marine Mammals Protection Amendment Act 1994

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