Amendment
This Part was amended by Maritime Rules Amendments 2025 (No 3). These amendments came into force on 28 January 2026.
Maritime Rules Part 40D - Design, Construction and Equipment – Fishing Ships
Current version of Part 40D
This rule applies to:
- all New Zealand ships that are registered under the Fisheries Acts, other than eel-fishing boats.
Part 40D covers requirements for design, construction and equipment for New Zealand fishing ships. The requirements reflect those of the Torremolinos Protocol of 1993 relating to the Torremolinos International Convention for the Safety of Fishing Vessels 1977.
For fishing boats of 6 metres or less in length that operate in enclosed limits or not more than 2 miles from shore, the Part provides for them to comply with a code of practice and operate under a safe operational plan approved by an authorised person, as an alternative to being in a safe ship management system.
History of Part 40D
Amendment
This Part was amended by Maritime Rules Amendments 2025 (No 2). These amendments come into force on 1 December 2025.
Amendment
This Part was amended by Maritime Rules Amendments 2025. These amendments come into force on 21 April 2025.
Amendment
Maritime Rules Various Amendments amended this Part on 13 December 2019.
Amendment
This Part was amended by Maritime Rules Part 40 Series Amendments 2017. Amendments 6.1 and 6.2 come into force January 2019, all other rules come into force March 2018.
Amendment
This Part was amended by Maritime Rules Various Amendments 2016 in November 2016.
Amendment
This Part was amended by Maritime Rules Various Amendments 2015, in 2015.
Amendment
This Part was amended by Maritime Rules Various Amendments 2014 in 2015.
Amendment
This part was amended by Part 40A, Part 40C, Part 40D, Part 40E, Part 40F, and Part 42A: Amendment 2014 in August 2014.
Amendment
This part was amended by Parts 19 and 44: Consequential Amendments in July 2014.
Amendment
This part was amended by Parts 20, 31, 32, 34 and 35: Consequential Amendments in 2014.
Amendment
This part was amended by Maritime Rules Part 40D: Amendment 2012, in 2012.
Amendment
This part was amended by Maritime (Various Amendment) Rules Parts 21-80 in 2009.
Amendment
This part was amended by Maritime (Various Amendments) Rules Part 20-91 in 2008.
Amendment
This part was amended by Maritime (EPIRBS) Amendment Rules in 2006.
Amendment
This part was amended by Maritime Rules Parts 20-90 in 2004.
New part comes into force
Part 40D entered into force on 1 February 2000.
New part signed
Part 40D was signed into law by the Transport Minister on 28 September 1999.