Maritime Transport (Oil Pollution Levies) Order 2016.

These regulations, consisting of 30 sections and one Schedule, establish the Maritime Transport (Oil Pollution Levies). The levies imposed by this order are oil pollution levies intended generally to provide money for the New Zealand Oil Pollution Fund to be applied by it for the purposes set out in section 331(1) of the Act. The levies described as capability levies are imposed particularly to support expenditures for the purposes set out in section 331(1)(b) of the Act and, more particularly, to support New Zealand’s oil pollution response capability or oil pollution response systems including capital expenditures to purchase or upgrade oil pollution response equipment. The Schedule specifies Rates of levy.
Oil pollution levies: contributing ships (1) Oil pollution levies are imposed for each year that begins on or after 1 July 2017 with respect to every contributing ship within 1 or more classes specified in the first column of the Schedule. Oil pollution levies for a year for a ship that belongs to a class or classes specified in the first column of the Schedule are calculated as set out in the second column of the Schedule in the corresponding row or rows. For a domestic ship, an oil pollution levy is a single annual levy for the year. For a domestic oil tanker, an oil pollution levy with respect to carrying oil as cargo is to be determined initially on the basis of an estimate of oil to be carried as cargo in the year and to be adjusted at the end of the year to reflect the actual amount carried. For a foreign ship, an oil pollution levy is a per entry levy payable on each entry during the year of the ship into a New Zealand port from outside the harbour limits of that port.