Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act 1985
Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act 1985
Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act 1985
Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act 1985
Public Act |
1985 No 37 |
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Date of assent |
8 March 1985 |
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Contents
An Act to amend the Shipping and Seamen Act 1952
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
1 Short Title
This Act may be cited as the Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act 1985, and shall be read together with and deemed part of the Shipping and Seamen Act 1952 (hereinafter referred to as the principal Act).
2 Duration and cancellation of certificates
(1)
Section 224 of the principal Act is hereby amended by repealing subsections (1) to (4), and substituting the following subsections:
“(1)
A certificate of survey (other than a certificate of survey in respect of a fishing boat or a restricted-limit ship) shall be in force for a period not exceeding 1 year from the date of its issue.
“(2)
The maximum period for which a Safety Convention certificate may be issued under this Part of this Act shall be the maximum period prescribed in the Safety Convention.
“(3)
Subject to section 224a of this Act, a certificate of survey in respect of a fishing boat or a restricted-limit ship shall be in force for a period not exceeding 4 years from the date of its issue.”
(2)
Section 224a of the principal Act (as inserted by section 9 of the Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act 1969) is hereby amended—
(a)
By inserting in subsection (1), after the words “a fishing boat”
, the words “or a restricted-limit ship”
:
(b)
By omitting from paragraph (a) of that subsection the words “The boat”
, and substituting the words “In the case of a fishing boat, the boat”
:
(c)
By inserting in paragraph (b) of that subsection, after the words “The boat”
, the words “or ship”
:
(d)
By inserting in paragraph (c) of that subsection, after the words “the boat”
wherever they occur, the words “or ship”
.
3 Extension of certificates
(1)
Section 226(1) of the principal Act (as substituted by section 45(1) of the Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act 1959) is hereby amended by omitting from paragraph (b) the words “one month”
, and substituting the words “the period prescribed in the Safety Convention”
.
(2)
Section 226 of the principal Act is hereby further amended by repealing subsection (2), and substituting the following subsection:
“(2)
If any New Zealand ship in respect of which any Safety Convention certificate has been issued under this Part of this Act is absent from New Zealand on the date when that certificate is due to expire, the Minister may grant an extension of that certificate for a period not exceeding the period prescribed in the Safety Convention.”
(3)
The following enactments are hereby repealed:
(a)
Section 45(2) of the Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act 1959:
(b)
Section 8(4)(e) of the Shipping and Seamen Amendment Act 1965.
This Act is administered in the Ministry of Transport.