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Hon Murray McCully
Government Bill
37—1
Explanatory note
1 Title
2 Commencement
3 Principal Act amended
4 Consent of Attorney-General required for certain proceedings
5 New Part 5A inserted
Part 5ALiability for environmental emergencies
Preliminary provisions
37A Purpose of Part
37B Interpretation for this Part
Responding to environmental emergencies
37C New Zealand operators to give notice of environmental emergencies
37D New Zealand operators to take response action
Civil liability for failure to take response action
37E Recovery of cost of response action taken by others
37F Order to pay money where no response action taken
37G Exemptions from liability
37H Limits on amount of liability
37I Joint and several liability
ScheduleAnnex VI added to Schedule 2
The Parliament of New Zealand enacts as follows:
