Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1995 No. 395 FISHING LEVY (SOUTHERN BLUEFIN TUNA FISHERY) REGULATIONS - REG 3

3. (1) In these Regulations:

"SFR" means a fishing right described in clause 8 of the Management Plan;

"the Levy Act" means the Fishing Levy Act 1991;

"the Management Act" means the Fisheries Management Act 1991;

"the Management Plan" means the Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Management Plan
1995 as in force from time to time.

(2) Unless the contrary intention appears, an expression used in these
Regulations and in the Management Plan has the same meaning in these
Regulations as in the Management Plan. (NOTES:
1. The Management Plan was notified in the Gazette on 3 February 1995.
2. The Management Plan governs the Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery; that is to
say, fishing for the species Thunnus thynnus and Thunnus maccoyii in the SBT
Fishery Area-the area made up of the Australian fishing zone and the high seas
fishing zone.

"Australian fishing zone" is defined in section 4 of the Management Act.

"High seas fishing zone" is defined in the Management Plan as the area of
water (other than coastal waters and the Australian fishing zone) the boundary
of which:

"(a) commences on the equator at the point at which the equator is intersected
by the meridian of longitude 50 degrees west; and

   (b)  runs thence east along the equator, to its intersection by the
        meridian of longitude 140 degrees west; and

   (c)  runs thence south along that meridian to its intersection by the
        parallel of latitude 60 degrees south; and

   (d)  runs thence west along that parallel to its intersection by the
        meridian of longitude 50 degrees west; and

   (e)  runs thence north along that meridian to the point of commencement;".

"Season" is defined in the Management Plan as having the same meaning in the
Management Plan as in the Fisheries Management (Southern Bluefin Tuna)
Regulations, in which "season" is defined as:

"(a) the period commencing at the beginning of 1 November 1994 and ending at
the end of 15 December 1995; and

   (b)  for subsequent seasons-the period commencing at the beginning of 16
        December in a year and ending at the end of 15 December of the
        following year.".)