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(2) This notice shall come into effect on 1 April 2007.

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
   amended the previous standards and specifications issued
   under section 296O of the Fisheries Act 1996.

(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 in clauses 4 and 5
below.

(3) The amendment to the standards and specifications will
allow the ASDO to register a fishing vessel for a period not
exceeding five years and issue the appropriate certificate of
registration in the approved form under section 103(3) of the
Fisheries Act 1996.

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 of Fisheries.

(c) relationship between the Minister of Fisheries 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 of Fisheries
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 annual catch entitlement 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 of
Fisheries 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) processing and licensing licensed fish receiver
applications.

(l) receiving and processing of monthly harvesting
returns, licensed fish receiver (LFR) returns, annual
inventory returns from an LFR and annual audit
reports from an LFR.

(m) monitoring catch limits, advising fishers of their
catch balance against catch limits and providing
reports to the Ministry of Fisheries regarding those
limits.

(n) issuing Section 80 (Conclusive Notification)
notifications.

(o) amending catch balances.

(p) reviewing Section 80 (Conclusive Notification)
notifications.

(q) monitoring over-fishing thresholds and tolerance
levels as set by the Minister of Fisheries 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 of Fisheries, 101–103 The Terrace (PO Box
   1020), Wellington.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of March 2007.

JIM ANDERTON, Minister of Fisheries.

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Fisheries (Quota Aggregation Limit Exemption)
Notice 2007 (No. F401)

Pursuant to section 60 of the Fisheries Act 1996, the
Minister of Fisheries, after consultation with representative
organisations that have an interest in section 60, and after
consideration of the matters specified in section 60(3) of the
Fisheries Act 1996, hereby gives the following notice.

Notice

1. Title and commencement—(1) This notice may be cited
   as the Fisheries (Quota Aggregation Limit Exemption)
   Notice 2007 (No. F401).

(2) This notice shall come into effect on the day after its
notification in the New Zealand Gazette.

2. Exemption to quota aggregation limit for deepwater
   clam—From the date that this notice comes into effect
   and for a period of five years after that date, consent is given
   for Westhaven Shellfish Limited to hold quota shares for
   deepwater clam having a combined quota weight less
   than or equal to 58.67% of the combined total allowable
   commercial catches of deepwater clam.

3. Exemption to quota aggregation limit for knobbed
   whelk—From the date that this notice comes into effect,
   consent is given for Westhaven Shellfish Limited to hold
   quota shares for knobbed whelk having a combined quota
   weight equivalent less than or equal to 37.31% of the
   combined total allowable commercial catches of knobbed
   whelk.

4. Avoidance of doubt—For the avoidance of doubt, at
   the conclusion of the period of five years referred to in
   clause 2 of this notice, the quota aggregation limit for
   Westhaven Shellfish Limited for deepwater clam reverts to
   the aggregation limit of the total allowable commercial
   catches of deepwater clam specified in the Fifth Schedule
   of the Fisheries Act 1996.

Dated at Wellington this 26th day of March 2007.

JIM ANDERTON, Minister of Fisheries.

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