(1) The persons jointly and severally liable to pay council dues in respect of any goods carried in any ship or aircraft are as follows:
(d) in the case of goods landed from a ship or unloaded from an aircraft and not claimed within 7 days thereafter, the owner and master of the ship or, as the case may be, the owner and pilot of the aircraft.
(2) The consignor and consignee of any goods carried in a ship or aircraft shall, until the contrary is shown, be deemed to be the persons so named in the manifest of the ship or aircraft, as the case may be.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Chatham Islands Council may from time to time, by written notice given to any person (being a person who operates a ship or aircraft between the Chatham Islands Territory and any other part of New Zealand), require that person to collect, on behalf of the Chatham Islands Council, any council dues payable in respect of goods imported into or exported from the Chatham Islands Territory on any ship or aircraft operated by that person.
(3A) A person required by notice under subsection (3) to collect council dues on behalf of the Chatham Islands Council—
(4) A person in respect of whom a notice under subsection (3) is in force—
(b) may, with the agreement of the Chatham Islands Council, retain, in payment of the reimbursement to which that person is entitled under paragraph (a), an agreed amount or proportion of any council dues collected by that person.
(5) Where any person is required by a notice given under subsection (3), to collect council dues payable in respect of goods carried on any ship or aircraft, that person shall, within 28 days after the end of each month in which any council dues are collected by that person, pay to the Chatham Islands Council the amount of the council dues so collected (less any amount retained by that person in accordance with any agreement entered into under subsection (4)(b)) and shall deliver to the Chatham Islands Council, at the same time, a return setting forth—
(5A) If a person required by notice under subsection (3) to collect council dues does not pay them to the Chatham Islands Council in accordance with subsection (5), the Chatham Islands Council may—
(6) The Chatham Islands Council may at any time revoke a notice given under subsection (3) by giving to the person to whom that notice was given a written notice revoking the notice given under subsection (3).
(7) Every person commits an offence and is liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,500—
Compare: 1980 No 6 (L) s 7
Section 16(3A): inserted, on 19 December 2002, by section 3(1) of the Chatham Islands Council Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 61).
Section 16(5A): inserted, on 19 December 2002, by section 3(2) of the Chatham Islands Council Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 61).
Section 16(5B): inserted, on 19 December 2002, by section 3(2) of the Chatham Islands Council Amendment Act 2002 (2002 No 61).
Section 16(7): amended, on 1 July 2013, by section 413 of the Criminal Procedure Act 2011 (2011 No 81).