New Zealand Acts

MARITIME TRANSPORT ACT 1994 - SECT 76

76 Retention and custody of documents

1 Where, by an order of a court, the holder of a maritime document is disqualified from holding or obtaining a document, the person in respect of whom the order is made shall forthwith, and whether or not demand is made, surrender the document to—

a) the court where the order was made; or

b) the Authority.

2 Where a maritime document is so surrendered, it shall forthwith be forwarded to the Director who shall endorse the terms of the disqualification on the document and retain it until the disqualification has expired or been removed and the person entitled to the document has made a request in writing for its return.

3 If the person entitled to the document is a person to whom section 74(2) applies, the document shall not be returned to that person until that person has passed the tests and fulfilled the requirements referred to in that provision.

Note: 1990 No 98 s 61