Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FISHERIES AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 99 of 1978 - SECT 22

22. (1) Section 16 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by omitting ''declared'' (wherever occurring) and substituting
''Australian'';

   (b)  by omitting from paragraph (d) of sub-section (2) ''or'' (last
        occurring); and

   (c)  by inserting after paragraph (d) of sub-section (2) the following
        paragraphs:

''(da) that a person specified in the certificate was, or was not, or no
person was, the holder of a licence under section 9 in respect of a boat
specified in the certificate, being a licence endorsed under paragraph (a) of
sub-section (3A) of that section so as to authorize the boat to be brought
into a port specified in the certificate at a time or times specified in the
certificate;

''(db) that a person specified in the certificate was, or was not, or no
person was, the holder of a licence under section 9 in respect of a boat
specified in the certificate, being a licence endorsed under paragraph (b) of
sub-section (3A) of that section so as to authorize the boat to be brought
into a port specified in the certificate at a time or times specified in the
certificate and to authorize the landing at that port of fish carried on board
the boat at the time when the boat was brought into the port; or''.

(2) Notwithstanding the amendments made by sub-section (1), section 16 of the
Principal Act continues to have effect in relation to proceedings for offences
against that Act or regulations under that Act alleged to have been committed
before the commencement of that sub-section.