New Zealand Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT ACT 1994 - SECT 461

461 Consular officer to be notified of detention of foreign ship

1 Where pursuant to any provision of this Act any foreign ship is detained at a port in New Zealand, or any proceeding is taken against the owner of a foreign ship or any other person for the time being responsible for the navigation and management of the ship or against the master of the ship, the following provisions shall apply:

a) in any case where the person ordering or giving notice of that detention, or, as the case may be, instituting that proceeding, is not the Director, that person shall forthwith inform the Director thereof and of the reason therefor:

b) in every case the Director shall forthwith cause notice thereof to be served on a consular officer of the country in which the ship is registered or to which the ship belongs; and the notice shall specify the grounds on which the ship has been detained or, as the case may be, the grounds on which the proceeding has been taken.

2 Nothing in this section shall affect the provisions of section 55 or section 397 .

Note: 1952 No 49 s 491