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:
- 1 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
- 1 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
- 1 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
- 1 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
- 1 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
- 3 from Maritime Rule 20.21 - Operating Limits - Requirement to operate within lesser of operating limits assigned to ship or operating limits that apply to Master
- 3 from Maritime Rule 21.13(1)(b) - Safe Ship Management Systems - Ships which do not proceed beyond restricted limits, fishing ships, and ships of less than 45 metres in length are not required to comply with section 1 - Entry to and conditions to be met in order to remain in Safe Ship Management System - New Zealand Safe Ship Management Certificate issued by Director
- 2 from Maritime Rule 31.20(1) - Crewing and Watchingkeeping - General crewing and other requirements - General duty related to minimum crewing - Owner and master of ship must monitor effectiveness of crew carried and ensure total crew carried on board includes sufficient crew and sufficient qualified crew
- 1 from Maritime Rule 31.42(a) - Crewing and Watchkeeping - General crewing and other requirements - SOLAS and STCW ships - Minimum watchkeeping and special crewing requirements - Owner and master of ship must not operate ship unless minimum crew on board holding prescribed endorsements or ancillary proficiencies remain in force
- 2 from Maritime Rule 31.42(c) - Crewing and Watchkeeping - General crewing and other requirements - SOLAS and STCW ships - Minimum watchkeeping and special crewing requirements - Owner and master of ship must not operate ship within coastal and offshore limits unless minimum crew on board holding certificates prescribed by rule 31.44
- 1 from Maritime Rule 31.43(1)(b), Table 3 - Crewing and Watchkeeping - General crewing and other requirements - SOLAS and STCW ships - Unlimited area - Engine Room Watchkeeping - Ships operating in the unlimited area must carry at least the engine room watchkeepers specified in Table 3
- 1 from Maritime Rule 31.44 - Crewing and Watchkeeping - SOLAS and STCW ships - Coastal and offshore limits - Ship operating beyond restricted limits but within coastal or offshore limits must carry specified navigational and engine room watchkeepers
- 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 - 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
- 2 from Maritime Rule 40A.33(2)(e) - Design, Construction and Equipment - Passenger Ships which are not SOLAS Ships - Machinery - Petrol inboard and outboard engines - Ships fitted with one outboard engine as main source of propulsion, if proceeding beyond enclosed waters, must have auxiliary engine of sufficient power to enable ship to return safely to port or a safe haven
- 1 from Maritime Rule 40C.50(d) - Design, Construction and Equipment - Passenger Ships that are not SOLAS Ships - Structural fire protection - Ventilation systems - Ventilation ducts for machinery spaces of Category A must not pass through accommodation spaces, service spaces or control stations unless the ducts are constructed of steel or an equivalent material and arranged to protect the integrity of any fire-resisting divisions
- 1 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 master must ensure life saving appliances are provided - Survival craft (comprising lifeboats, rescue boats and liferafts)
- 1 from 40C, Appendix 3.2, Survival Craft (1)(b) - Design, Construction and Equipment - Non-passenger Ships that are not SOLAS Ships - Life saving appliances - Offshore limit ships and coastal limit ships - Survival craft (comprising lifeboats, rescue boats and liferafts)
- 2 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 42B.20(16) - Safety Equipment - Fire Appliances Performance Standards - Fixed gas
fire-extinguishing systems - Must be maintained in accordance with Australian standard AS 1851:2005
- 2 from Maritime Rule 43.15 - Radio - Performance standards - MF/HF radio (voice communication, narrow-band direct printing and DSC) - Compliance with performance standards adopted by IMO Resolution A.613(5), and Resolution A.806(19)
- 1 from Maritime Rule 45.29(3) - Navigational Equipment - Ships of 500 tons gross tonnage or more to which SOLAS is not applied - Radar installations - Owner and master must ensure radar installations fitted to ship on or after
1 September 1984 meet the requirements of the International Maritime Organization Assembly Resolutions A.477(XII) and A.222(VII)
- 1 from Maritime Rule 45, Appendix - Compass adjustment (b)(2) - Navigational equipment - On ships to which SOLAS is not applied - Ship's adjustable compass swung and adjusted by compass adjuster, to comply with Part 45 and within one month of ship undergoing inspection required by Part 46.17(1)(b)
- 2 from Maritime Rule 46.17(1)(a) - Surveys, Certification and Maintenance - Ships which do not proceed beyond restricted limits, fishing ships, and ships of less than 45 metres in length - Inspections - Hull and external fittings inspections below the waterline with the ship out of the water at intervals not exceeding two years
- 1 from Maritime Rule 46.17(1)(b) - Surveys, Certification and Maintenance - Ships which do not proceed beyond restricted limits, fishing ships, and ships less than 45 metres in length that are not required to comply with section 1 - Inspections - Propeller shafts and rudder stocks with water-lubricated bearings at intervals not exceeding four years
- 1 from Maritime Rule 82, Appendix 2, 2.18.1(a)(iii) - Commercial Jet Boat Operations (River) - Commercial jet boat standards - Other equipment to be carried on commercial jet boats - Rope permanently attached to bow eye
- 1 from Maritime Rule 90.23(2) - Pilotage - Pilotage requirements to carry a pilot - Master of any ship, other than an oil tanker, chemical tanker or gas carrier, that meets or exceeds any limits specified for a pilotage area must ensure that the ship, when navigating in that pilotage area, carries a pilot who holds a current, appropriate pilot licence
- 5 from Marine Protection Rule 122.4(1) & (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
- 1 from Marine Protection Rule 200.17(a) - Offshore Installations - Operations - Permitted discharges of oil and oily mixtures - Oil content of the discharge without dilution does not exceed 15 parts per million
- 1 from Marine Protection Rule 200.18 - Offshore Installations - Operations - Oil and oily mixtures that cannot be discharged - Owner must ensure oil and oily mixtures are retained on board, offloaded as produced oil, or discharged to a reception facility
- 1 from Marine Protection Rule 200.21(6)(a) - Offshore Installations - Operations - Oil record book - Owner must ensure the installation's oil record book is kept on the installation