Pursuant to sections 296O and 296P of the Fisheries Act 1996, the Minister for Primary Industries gives the following notice.
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1. Title and commencement-(1) This notice may be cited as the Fisheries (Standards and Specifications) Notice 2013.
(2) This notice shall come into effect on the day after its publication in the New Zealand Gazette.
2. Interpretation-In this notice, terms and expressions defined in the Fisheries Act 1996 have the same meanings as in that Act.
3. Nature of standards and specifications-(1) I have issued new standards and specifications under section 296O of the Fisheries Act 1996. These standards and specifications will apply as from 1 October 2013.
(2) The standards and specifications relate to the performance or exercise of specified functions, duties and powers by an Approved Service Delivery Organisation (ASDO). A general indication of the nature of these standards and specifications is listed below.
4. Business standards and specifications-These standards and specifications relate to the general operation and management of an ASDO in exercising any specified function, duty, or power including standards and specifications relating to:
(a) ASDO operation.
(b) performance record-keeping and reporting to the Ministry for Primary Industries.
(c) relationship between the Minister for Primary Industries and the ASDO, including dispute resolution.
(d) development and use of approved forms.
(e) information management and system requirements.
(f) the technical operating standards for exchange
of electronic data and information from an ASDO (including data exchange dictionaries).
(g) supply of information to the Ministry for Primary Industries to assist with requests made under the Official Information Act 1982.
5. Service standards and specifications-These standards and specifications relate to the operation and management of specific registry services by an ASDO including standards and specifications relating to:
(a) revoking and amending approvals for licences, approvals, authorities, permissions or decisions or a registration where false or misleading information has been supplied.
(b) monitoring and recording fishers' compliance with various reporting and record-keeping requirements.
(c) client registration.
(d) monitoring foreign ownership and quota aggregation provisions.
(e) maintaining and operating registers relating to quota, annual catch entitlements (ACE), registered fishing vessels, fishing permits and the transitional register of quota and forward trades.
(f) recording decisions regarding quota allocation on the quota and ACE registers.
(g) processing transfers of quota and ACE and calculating and comparing ACE with reported catch.
(h) processing applications for caveats and mortgages.
(i) recording decisions made by the Ministry for Primary Industries on applications for fishing permits on the permit register.
(j) registering fishing vessels except for the granting of consent to register foreign owned or operated fishing vessels or fish carriers.
(k) registering automatic location communicators.
(l) processing and licensing licensed fish receiver (LFR) applications.
(m) receiving and processing of monthly harvesting returns, LFR returns, annual inventory returns from an LFR and annual audit reports from an LFR.
(n) Monitoring catch limits and providing reports to the Ministry for Primary Industries regarding those limits.
(o) issuing section 80 (Conclusive Notification) notifications.
(p) amending catch balances.
(q) reviewing section 80 (Conclusive Notification) notifications.
(r) monitoring underfishing rights, over-fishing thresholds and tolerance levels as set by the Minister for Primary Industries from time to time and actioning breaches of those thresholds and levels.
6. Copies of standards and specifications-Full copies of the standards and specifications are available from the Head Office, Ministry for Primary Industries, Pastoral House,
25 The Terrace, Wellington. Postal Address: PO Box 2526, Wellington 6140.
Dated at Wellington this 16th day of August 2013.
HON NATHAN GUY, Minister for Primary Industries.