New Zealand Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT ACT 1994 - SECT 282

282 Oil Pollution Advisory Committee

1 There shall continue to be a committee, to be called the Oil Pollution Advisory Committee, to give advice to the Authority on the following matters:

a) the New Zealand Marine Oil Spill Response Strategy:

b) the fixing and levying of oil pollution levies imposed under Part 24 :

c) the use of the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund:

d) any other matters related to marine oil spills that the Minister, or the Director, from time to time specifies by notice to the Committee.

2 The Minister shall appoint to the Committee—

a) the Director; and

b) such other persons as the Minister from time to time determines; and

c) a chairperson of the Committee.

3 The Minister shall, in appointing members of the Committee, consider whether the Committee should have members who represent, or have experience relating to, the following:

a) the shipping industry:

b) the oil and gas exploration industry:

c) the oil and gas production and distribution industry:

d) the Petroleum Industry Emergency Action Committee:

e) operators of port facilities:

f) regional councils:

g) Maritime New Zealand:

h) the Ministry of Transport:

i) the Ministry for the Environment:

j) the Department of Conservation:

k) Te Puni Kokiri.

4 The Committee may, subject to any written directions of the Minister, regulate its procedure as it thinks fit.

5 Members of the Committee shall be appointed on such terms and conditions (including travelling allowances and expenses) as the Minister from time to time determines.

6 Any travelling allowances and expenses determined by the Minister under subsection (5) shall be paid out of the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund.

Note: 1974 No 14 s 29G ; 1977 No 130 s 3

History: Section 282(3)(g): substituted, on 1 July 2005, by section 11(2) of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2004 (2004 No 98).