(1)  The holder of a fishing licence (rock lobster) who is in possession of rock lobster on a fishing vessel during a closed season for the male rock lobster fishery is guilty of an offence unless that licensee does all of the following:

(a) makes a closed season report within 24 hours after the commencement of that closed season;

(b) within 14 days after the commencement of that closed season –

(i) weighs the rock lobster, if any, that have not been unloaded; and

(ii) after the weighing, completes the required sections of Part A of a commercial rock lobster quota docket; and

(iii) sends the pink and yellow sheets of the commercial rock lobster quota docket (with the required sections of Part A of the docket completed) to the Secretary;

(c) unloads all the rock lobster before the commencement of that licensee's first fishing trip of the next open season for the male rock lobster fishery;

(d) whenever any of the rock lobster are unloaded from the fishing vessel –

(i) completes a new commercial rock lobster quota docket in accordance with Division 2 of Part 6 ; and

(ii) enters, on the new commercial rock lobster quota docket, the number of the docket referred to in paragraph (b)(ii) .

Penalty:  Grade 3 penalty.

(2)  However, the holder of a fishing licence (rock lobster) is not guilty of an offence under subrule (1) in respect of any rock lobster if –

(a) that licensee has the Secretary's written approval to use alternative arrangements when holding rock lobster on a fishing vessel during a closed season for the male rock lobster fishery; and

(b) the rock lobster are held in accordance with that approval.