Pursuant to sections 47(3) and 395(3) of the Maritime Transport Act 1994, the Director of Maritime New Zealand hereby notifies the granting of the following exemptions:
- 4 from Maritime Rule 19.3 - Maritime Transport Operator - Certification and Responsibilities - Maritime Transport Operator Plan and maritime transport operator safety system - Requirement to hold Maritime Transport Operator Certificate
- 4 from Maritime Rule 19.41 - Maritime Transport Operator - Certification and Responsibilities - Maritime Transport Operator Plan and maritime transport operator safety system - Maritime Transport Operator Plan and all its requirements
- 4 from Maritime Rule 19.42(1) - Maritime Transport Operator - Certification and Responsibilities - Maritime Transport Operator Plan and maritime transport operator safety system - Maritime transport operator must develop and document a maritime transport operator safety system in the Maritime Transport Operator Plan
- 4 from Maritime Rule 19.43(1) - Maritime Transport Operator - Certification and Responsibilities - Maritime Transport Operator Plan and maritime transport operator safety system - Survey plan - Maritime transport operator must ensure that a survey plan is developed and applied
- 4 from Maritime Rule 19.45(1) - Maritime Transport Operator - Certification and Responsibilities - Maritime Transport Operator Plan and maritime transport operator safety system - Maintenance plan - A maritime transport operator must develop and apply a maintenance plan
- 4 from Maritime Rule 19.46(1) - Maritime Transport Operator - Certification and Responsibilities - Maritime Transport Operator Plan and maritime transport operator safety system - Safety equipment list and spare parts list - A maritime transport operator must ensure that a relevant safety equipment list and a spare parts list, in a form acceptable to the Director, are developed for each ship in the maritime transport operation
- 6 from Maritime Rule 19.62(1) - Maritime Transport Operator - Certification and Responsibilities - Operating Requirements - Maritime transport operator responsible for safe ships - No person may operate or permit the operation of a ship in the maritime transport operation unless the ship has a valid Certificate of Survey issued under rule 44.41
- 1 from Maritime Rule 31.64(1)(a) - Crewing and Watchkeeping - Fishing ships that proceed beyond the inshore fishing area other than fishing ships less than 24m within coastal and offshore limits - Other minimum crewing requirements for fishing vessels - Owner and master of fishing vessel must not operate unless there are seafarers on board holding minimum required certificates
- 1 from Maritime Rule 31.64(2)(a), Table 7 - Crewing and Watchkeeping - Fishing ships that proceed beyond the inshore fishing area other than fishing ships less than 24m within coastal and offshore limits - Other minimum crewing requirements for fishing vessels - Applicable tables and flow charts in Table 7 - Crewing for fishing vessels - Unlimited area
- 1 from Maritime Rule 31.84(1) - Crewing and Watchkeeping - Ships other than ships to which subparts C and D apply - Minimum crewing requirements for other ships - This rule applies to a passenger or non-passenger ship other than a ship listed in rule 31.82(2)
- 1 from Maritime Rule 31.84(2)(b)(i) - Crewing and Watchkeeping - Ships other than ships to which subparts C and
D apply - Minimum crewing requirements for other ships - Owner and master of ship must not operate ship unless seafarers on board hold minimum requirement certificates and prescribed endorsements
- 1 from Maritime Rule 31.84(4)(e), Table 14 - Crewing and Watchkeeping - Ships other than ships to which subparts
C and D apply - Minimum crewing requirements for other ships - Applicable and flow-charts for non-passenger ships operating within inshore limits, Table 14 - Crewing for non-passenger ships
- 1 from Maritime Rule 40A.55(1), Appendix 3.3 - Design, Construction and Equipment - Passenger Ships which are not SOLAS Ships - Fire fighting appliances - Owner and master of a ship must ensure fire appliances are provided in accordance with requirements of Appendix 3 - Restricted limit ships
- 1 from Maritime Rule 40A.58(1)(b), Appendix 7, Table 1 - Design, Construction and Equipment - Passenger Ships which are not SOLAS Ships - Anchors and cables - New ships of 24 metres of more - Owner of ship 24 metres in length or more must ensure anchors and cables are provided in accordance with the requirements of Table 1 in Appendix 7 - Anchors and chain cables for ships of 24 metres or more in length
- 3 from Maritime Rule 40C.13(4), Appendix 1, Part 1.4 - Design, Construction and Equipment - Passenger Ships that are not SOLAS Ships - Subdivision and stability - Ship engaged in towing operations must be a decked ship and meet the intact stability requirements of Appendix 1 - Intact stability - Tugs
- 1 from Maritime Rule 40C.51(1), Appendix 2.3 - Design, Construction and Equipment - Passenger Ships that are not SOLAS Ships - Fire fighting appliances - Owner and the master of a ship must ensure that fire appliances are provided in accordance with the requirements of Appendix 2 of this Part - Restricted coastal and restricted limit ships
- 2 from Maritime Rule 40C.52(1), Appendix 3.3 - Design, Construction and Equipment - Passenger Ships that are not SOLAS Ships - Life saving appliances - Restricted coastal and restricted limit ships - Owner and the master must ensure life saving appliances are provided - Survival craft (comprising lifeboats, rescue boats and liferafts)
- 2 from Maritime Rule 40D.13(2), Table 2 - Design, Construction and Equipment - Fishing Ships - Design survey, construction and structural strength - Weathertight doors - Height above deck of sills in doorways, companionways, superstructure and machinery casings exposed to weather and sea must be as given in Table 2
- 2 from Maritime Rule 40D.17(5), Table 5 - Design, Construction and Equipment - Fishing Ships - Design survey, construction and structural strength - Ventilators - Height above deck of machinery space ventilator coamings must be acceptable to the surveyor and other ventilator coaming heights above deck must be in accordance with Table 5
- 1 from Maritime Rule 40D.68(1), Appendix 3.3 - Design, Construction and Equipment - Fishing Ships - Radiocommunications equipment - Owner and master of ship must ensure radiocommunications equipment provided in accordance with Appendix 3 - Ships that proceed beyond offshore limits
- 1 from Maritime Rule 42A.15(3)(b) - Safety Equipment - Life-Saving Appliances - Performance, Maintenance and Servicing - Survival craft and rescue boats - Non-SOLAS rescue boats - Any required non-SOLAS rescue boat must be fitted with a protective stowage cover and be capable of being righted by not more than two persons when inverted in water
- 1 from Maritime Rule 47.65(2) - Load Lines - Ships of less than 24 metres in length - Conditions of assignment - Height from deck of coamings must be of substantial construction
- 1 from Maritime Rule 82.26(b) - Commercial Jet Boat Operations - River - Operator Certification - Currency of Commercial Jet Boat Operator Certificate - Comply with the applicable Commercial Jet Boat Safe Operational Plan
- 4 from Marine Protection Rule 122.4(1) and (2) - Marine Protection Products - Oil - Oil discharge monitoring and control system and oil filtering equipment - Applies to ships of 400 gross tonnage or more. Owner must ensure that every ship is fitted with oil filtering equipment designed to ensure any oily mixture, which is discharged into the sea after passing through the system, has an oil content not exceeding 15 parts per million