Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1995 No. 7 FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (SOUTHERN BLUEFIN TUNA FISHERY) REGULATIONS - REG 2

2.(1) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears:

"Act" means the Fisheries Management Act 1991;

"nominated boat" means a boat that is entered in the Register as a nominated
boat in respect of a statutory fishing right;

"processed form" means Southern Bluefin Tuna that has been gilled and gutted,
whether or not the tail or gillplates of the Southern Bluefin Tuna have been
removed, but does not include Southern Bluefin Tuna that has been cut up or
dismembered in any other manner;

"SBT Plan" means the Southern Bluefin Tuna Fishery Management Plan 1995 made
under subsection 17 (1) of the Act;

"season" means the period commencing on 1 November in a year and ending on 31
October of the next year;

"Southern Bluefin Tuna research program" means an internationally co-ordinated
program of research about Southern Bluefin Tuna that:

   (a)  is endorsed by the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin
        Tuna; and

   (b)  involves taking Southern Bluefin Tuna for research and commercial
        purposes;

        (i)    in the high seas fishing zone; or

        (ii)   outside the SBT Fishery area; using a foreign boat.

(2) Expressions that are used in the SBT Plan and in these Regulations have
the same meaning in these Regulations as in that plan. (NOTE: Terms defined in
the Fisheries Management Act 1991 have the same meanings in these
Regulations.)