New Zealand Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT ACT 1994 - SECT 42

42 Acceptance of convention documents

1 Subject to subsection (2), the Director shall accept every valid licence, permit, certificate, or other document issued or approved by a State, other than New Zealand, under a convention to which that State and New Zealand are both parties; and, for the purposes of this Act, such documents shall be deemed to be maritime documents.

2 The Director shall not accept, or shall suspend acceptance of, any documents referred to in subsection (1) where he or she has clear grounds for believing that—

a) the condition of the ship or maritime product does not correspond substantially with the particulars of any document relating to the ship or maritime product; or

b) the condition of the ship or maritime product has not been maintained in accordance with the provisions of any requirements leading to the issue of that document; or

c) the ship is not in all respects fit to proceed to sea without danger to the ship or the persons on board or without presenting an unreasonable threat of harm to the marine environment; or

d) the ship or maritime product has been materially altered without the sanction of the State that issued or approved the document; or

e) the document has been fraudulently obtained or the holder of the document is not the person to whom the document was originally issued.

3 Sections 35, 41, 43 to 51, 68, 69, 73 to 78, 406(b), and 406(c) shall not apply to any document referred to in subsection (1).

4 This section applies in respect of—

a) every ship, other than a New Zealand ship, registered in a country that is a party to any convention to which New Zealand is also a party:

b) the crew of every ship referred to in paragraph (a):

c) the maritime products of every ship referred to in paragraph (a).