Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FISHERIES AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 99 of 1978 - SECT 23

23. Section 17 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-section (1) ''Two hundred dollars''
and substituting ''$200'';

   (b)  by omitting from paragraph (e) of sub-section (1) ''and'' (last
        occurring); and

   (c)  by adding at the end of sub-section (1) the following paragraphs:

''(g) for providing for the inspection of foreign boats licensed under this
Act and of nets, traps and other equipment belonging to such boats and of fish
taken with the use of such boats;

''(h) for providing for the reporting of the positions of foreign boats
licensed under this Act at times when such boats are in the Australian fishing
zone;

''(j) for providing procedures to be followed to facilitate the recognition of
foreign boats licensed under this Act;

''(k) for prescribing short methods of reference to areas of proclaimed waters
specified in the regulations and the purposes for which those methods of
reference may be used;

''(l) for providing for the carrying on board foreign boats licensed under the
Act of persons nominated by the Minister or by the Secretary, being persons
who are officers or who are engaged in marine research, or are interested in
methods of catching, capturing or processing fish; and

''(m) for providing for the furnishing of information relating to the use in
the Australian fishing zone of foreign boats licensed under this Act.''.