New Zealand Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT ACT 1994 - SECT 361

361 Time for bringing proceedings

No action under section 345 or section 346 or section 350 in respect of the discharge or escape of oil from a CLC ship, or in respect of the discharge or escape of bunker oil from a Bunker Oil Convention ship, shall be brought in any court, unless the proceedings are commenced not later than 3 years after the date on which the claim arose, nor later than 6 years after the event, or, as the case may be, the first of the events, by reason of which liability was incurred.

Note: 1974 No 14 s 41

History: Section 361: amended, on 1 October 2014, by section 94 of the Maritime Transport Amendment Act 2013 (2013 No 84).