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FISHERIES MANAGEMENT AMENDMENT REGULATIONS 2002 (NO. 1) 2002 NO. 25

STATUTORY RULES 2002 No. 25

Issued by the authority of the Minister for Forestry and Conservation

Fisheries Management Act 1991

Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1)

Subsection 168(1) of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 (the Act) provides that the Governor-General may make regulations required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed or necessary or convenient to be prescribed in carrying out or giving effect to the Act.

Regulation 4B of the Fisheries Management Regulations 1992 (the principal Regulations) lists the fisheries managed by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) (apart from those for which a plan of management is in place) and provides that a description of the area of each fishery is set out in Schedule 1A. Part 4 of Schedule 1A describes the area of the Jack Mackerel Fishery.

The purpose of the Regulations is to amend Schedule 1A of the principal Regulations to give effect to a decision by AFMA to change the name of the Jack Mackerel Fishery to the Small Pelagic Fishery. This new name better reflects the range of species that are targeted in this fishery, which include small pelagic species other than Jack Mackerel. The Regulations substitute each reference to the Jack Mackerel Fishery with a reference to the Small Pelagic Fishery.

Details of the Regulations, which commenced on gazettal, are set out below:

Regulation 1 provided for the Regulations to be cited as the Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2002 (No. 1).

Regulation 2 provided that the Regulations commence on gazettal.

Regulation 3 provided that Schedule 1 amends the principal Regulations.

Schedule 1 Item 1 replaces the reference to the Jack Mackerel Fishery in Regulation 4B with a reference to the Small Pelagic Fishery.

Schedule 1 Item 2 substitutes a new heading for Part 4 of Schedule 1A which has the effect of changing the name of the fishery described in that Part from Jack Mackerel Fishery to Small Pelagic Fishery.