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Acts Affecting Native Lands, Etc. (In English and Maori), Passed by the General Assembly, Session 1892, 1893, 1897, 1898, 1899.

Administration

Administration.

4.Minister of Marine Department to administer Act. The general administration of this Act shall be under the control and direction of the Minister for the time being having charge of the Marine Department, or other Minister, being a member of the page 3Executive Council of the colony, whom the Governor from time to time may appoint to have charge of the administration of this Act.
5. The Governor in Council may from time to time make Governor may make regulation for protection of oysters.regulations, which shall have general force and effect throughout the colony, or particular force and effect only in any waters or places specified therein, for any of the purposes following, that is to say: —
(1.) Generally regulating the oyster-fisheries of the colony:
(2.) Providing for carrying out, enforcing, and giving effect to the registry of boats employed in oyster-fisheries; and prescribing any system of registry, or lettering and numbering of boats, or distinguishing flags to be carried by boats, and the sails, nets, or other gear belonging to them and used in fishing:
(3.) Defining the boats or classes of boats to which any regulations are to apply, and providing for the exemption of any boats or classes of boats from such regulations or any of them:
(4.) Prescribing conditions and restrictions for regulating the taking of oysters, and for marking the situation and boundaries of oyster-beds and any subdivisions thereof:
(5.) Providing for the licensing of persons and boats engaged in taking oysters, appointing a uniform date at which such licenses shall expire, the fees to be paid for such licenses, and the terms and conditions to which any of such licenses shall be subject, the cancellation of licenses, and for restraining persons from taking oysters who are not licensed:
(6.) Preserving good order among the persons engaged in taking oysters:
(7.) Regulating the relative powers and duties of all officers appointed under this Act:
(8.) In respect of all or any species of oysters respectively,—
  • (a.) Prescribing a "close season" or "close seasons" in any year, month, week, or day, as may be most suitable for the whole or any part or parts of the colony, during which it shall be unlawful for any person to take any oysters of such species respectively, or in any way to injure or disturb the same; or
  • (b.) Extending or varying any close season so prescribed, or varying any close season so extended; or
  • (c.) Prescribing, in respect of oysters in any place, a close season over any term not exceeding three years, and, before the expiration of such term, further extending the same:
(9.) Prohibiting the buying, selling, exposing for sale, consigning for sale, buying for sale, or having in possession any oyster in any manner in contravention of this Act:
(10.) Prescribing the minimum size or weight of any oyster that may be taken:
(11.) Fixing the time or times during which dredging shall be prohibited, or prohibiting the use of any particular engines, tackle, or apparatus for taking any oysters:page 4
(12.) Reserving from public use any natural oyster-beds, so as to prevent their destruction:
(13.) Prohibiting altogether, for such period as he shall think fit, the taking of any oysters:
(14.) Setting apart any tidal waters for the natural or artificial propagation of oysters:
(15.)

Excluding any part of the colony from the operation of this Act or any portion of this Act, or from the operation of any regulations made thereunder.

Penalty for breach of regulations. The Governor may, by such regulations, impose any penalty not exceeding one hundred pounds for the breach of any such regulations; and all such regulations shall be gazetted, and thereupon shall be binding and conclusive upon all persons as if the same had been contained in this Act.
6. Collectors of Customs to see Act carried into effect.

It shall be the duty of the Collectors and Inspectors respectively within the colony to see that the provisions of this Act are duly carried into effect, and for that purpose they severally shall have and may exercise all the powers granted by this Act in that behalf.

Appointment of Inspectors and fishery officers. The Governor may from time to time appoint any persons to be Inspectors of oyster-fisheries under this Act, and may appoint and remove such assistants to the Collectors, and such other officers, servants, and other persons as may appear to him to be necessary for the effective administration of this Act, all of whom shall, as well as the Collectors and Inspectors aforesaid, be deemed to be fishery officers appointed under this Act.