Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

FISHING LEVY REGULATIONS 1997 No. 312 - REG 1.2

1.2 (1) In these Regulations:

"holder", of a fishing concession, means the person to whom the concession was
granted or, if the person has transferred the concession to someone else, the
other person;

"invoice date", for levy, or an instalment of levy, payable for a fishing
concession, means the date mentioned on the invoice issued by AFMA for the
levy or instalment;

"Levy Act" means the Fishing Levy Act 1991;

"Management Act" means the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

(2) Unless the contrary intention appears:

   (a)  a reference in these Regulations to a named fishery that is described
        by that name in regulation 4B of the Fisheries Management Regulations
        is a reference to the fishery as described; and

   (b)  any other word or expression used in these Regulations and in the
        Fisheries Management Regulations has the same meaning in these
        Regulations as in those Regulations. [NOTES:
1. The fisheries described in regulation 4B of the Fisheries Management
Regulations, at the commencement of these Regulations, are:

   (a)  the Bass Strait Scallop Fishery;

   (b)  the Coral Sea Fishery;

   (c)  the Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery;

   (d)  the Jack Mackerel Fishery;

   (e)  the Macquarie Island Developmental Fishery;

   (f)  the North West Slope Trawl Fishery;

   (g)  the South East Non-trawl Fishery;

   (h)  the South East Trawl Fishery;

   (i)  the Southern Shark Fishery;

   (j)  the Southern Squid Fishery;

   (k)  the Southern Tuna and Billfish Fishery;

   (l)  the Western Deep Water Trawl Fishery; and

   (m)  the Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery.
2. The following plans of management have been made under section 17 of the
Management Act:

   (a)  the Great Australian Bight Trawl Fishery Management Plan (notified in
        Gazette No. S205 of 2 July 1993);

   (b)  the Northern Prawn Trawl Fishery Management Plan 1995 (notified in
        Gazette No. S49 of 10 February 1995);

   (c)  the Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Management Plan 1995 (notified in
        Gazette No. S34 of 3 February 1995).
3. Under the Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development 
Act 1989 , a part (the "research component") of the levy imposed by the
Fishing Levy Act 1991 is to be paid to the Fisheries Research and Development
Corporation for research and development activities relating to the fishing
industry. The research component of each levy amount is set out in a note
following the regulation that states that amount.]