New Zealand Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT ACT 1994 - SECT 321

321 Purchases by Authority to prepare for and implement responses to marine oil spills

1 The Authority may purchase anything it considers necessary or desirable to make preparations for, or to implement, or assist in implementing, any response by the Authority or by any regional council, and as contemplated by the New Zealand marine oil spill response strategy, to a marine oil spill in New Zealand waters.

2 The Authority shall be entitled to be reimbursed for any expenditure under subsection (1) out of the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund if such expenditure is provided for in the annual plan of expenditure approved by the Minister under section 332 .