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FISHERIES LEGISLATION AMENDMENT ACT 2016 (NO 23 OF 2016) - SECT 41

Schedule 2 amended

(1)     Schedule 2, heading

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fishery

(2)     Schedule 2, heading

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section 25(1)

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sections 25(1) and 70C(1)

(3)     Schedule 2, clause 2 and 2(a)

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fishery

(4)     Schedule 2, clause 2(c) and (d)

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    (c)     provide for the management of a fishery, or a designated area within a fishery, through a quota system;

    (d)     authorise the Minister or Joint Authority to determine, by Gazette notice, any matter required for the operation of a quota system;

(5)     Schedule 2, clause 2(f), after "Director"

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or Joint Authority

(6)     Schedule 2, clause 2(g)

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    (g)     provide for fishing monitoring and vessel monitoring, including authorising the Director to require all holders of a class of licence or permit, or all owners of a class of registered vessel, to install and operate fishing monitoring equipment or a vessel monitoring system or both on a vessel;

(7)     Schedule 2, after clause 2

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Examples for clause 2(d)

1     Total allowable catch.

2     The allocation of total allowable catch between licensees.

    2A.     A management plan may deem a person to be in possession of fish in circumstances prescribed by the plan.

    2B.     A management plan may:

    (a)     subject to paragraph (b), for an offence against the management plan, prescribe a fine not exceeding 170 penalty units and, if the offence is a continuing one, prescribe a further fine not exceeding 4 penalty units for each day after the first day during which the offence has continued; and

    (b)     for an offence against the management plan that is an offence of strict liability, prescribe a penalty not exceeding 100 penalty units.

(8)     Schedule 2, clause 3

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fishery

(9)     Schedule 2, clause 4

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fishery management

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management

(10)     Schedule 2, clause 4, after "Director"

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or Joint Authority

(11)     Schedule 2, clause 5

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all words from "a fishery" to "Director"

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a management plan made under clause 4 may authorise the Director or Joint Authority

(12)     Schedule 2, clause 5(a)(ii)

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fishery



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