Commonwealth Numbered Acts

FISHERIES AMENDMENT ACT 1980 No. 86 of 1980 - SECT 8

8. (1) Section 7 of the Principal Act is repealed and the following section
substituted: Proclaimed waters

"7. (1) Subject to sub-section (2), the Governor-General may, by Proclamation,
declare any marine or tidal waters to be proclaimed waters for the purposes of
this Act.



"(2) A Proclamation under sub-section (1) shall not extend to the coastal
waters of, or waters within the limits of, a State or internal Territory.".

(2) Notwithstanding the amendment made by this section, a Proclamation in
force, or purporting to be in force, under section 7 of the Principal Act
immediately before the commencement of this section continues in force as if
made under the section substituted by this section to the extent that it
applies to waters other than waters referred to in sub-section (2) of the
section so substituted.