Schedule 4 to the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting after

using 2 lures, or 2 baits, together with one or more artificial flies – regulation 10(1)(d)

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the following items:

holder of whitebait licence using more than one whitebait net at any one time – regulation 10(5)(a)

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holder of whitebait licence using whitebait net without attached tag bearing whitebait licence number – regulation 10(5)(b)

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using severed limb, or part of severed limb, from tree or bush to secure whitebait net to bank or bed of river – regulation 10A(1)

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using dislodged trunk, or part of dislodged trunk, of tree or bush to secure whitebait net to bank or bed of river – regulation 10A(2)

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Displayed and numbered in accordance with the Rules Publication Act 1953 .

Notified in the Gazette on 27 September 2006

These regulations are administered in the Department of Primary Industries and Water.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the regulation)

These regulations amend the Inland Fisheries (Recreational Fishing) Regulations 1999 as regard whitebait nets by –

(a) providing that 8 metres, rather than 20 metres, is the maximum distance that the holder of a whitebait licence is permitted to be away from a whitebait net while it is in use; and

(b) providing that a whitebait net is not to be secured to a riverbank or riverbed by means of severed or dislodged vegetation; and

(c) prescribing further infringement notice offences; and

(d) prescribing the penalties for those offences.