Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2002 (NO. 1) 2002 NO. 83 - SCHEDULE 1

(regulation 3)

[1] After Part 2

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Part 2A Actions covered by Ministerial declarations
2A.01 Criteria for accreditation of management plans for Commonwealth managed fisheries

(1)

This regulation applies in relation to a decision by the Minister to accredit a management plan that applies to a fishery for the purposes of a declaration under section 33 of the Act.

(2) For paragraph 33 (3) (a) of the Act, the criteria that must be met by the management plan and the law under which it is in force, or is to be in force, are as follows:

(a)

the law under which the management plan is in force, or is to be in force, must be the Fisheries Management Act 1991 or the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 ;

(b)

the management plan must be endorsed by the Minister under an agreement made under section 146 of the Act;

(c)

the management plan must be in the form in which it was endorsed.

(3)

In this regulation:

"fishery" means a fishery to which the Fisheries Management Act 1991 or the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies.