New Zealand Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT ACT 1994 - SECT 307

307 Compensation payable where property requisitioned

1 Where any requisitioned property has come under the control of any person acting under section 305 , any person having an interest in the requisitioned property may recover from the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund reasonable compensation for—

a) the use of that requisitioned property while under that control; and

b) any loss of or damage or injury to that requisitioned property suffered or incurred while under that control.

2 Where the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund does not have sufficient resources to pay the whole or any part of any compensation payable under subsection (1), the Crown may, but is not obliged to, pay the compensation that the Fund is unable to pay.

3 The Crown, and the Authority on behalf of the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund, may recover as pollution damages under section 345 or section 385C any compensation paid under this section.

Note: 1983 No 46 s 65

History: Section 307(3): amended, on 23 October 2013, by section 52 of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).