Victorian Consolidated Regulations

FISHERIES REGULATIONS 2019 - REG 105

For the purposes of section 72(1)(a) of the Act, the eligibility criteria that an applicant must satisfy are—

        (a)     the applicant is carrying out the activity on behalf of a post-secondary education institution, a scientific institution, a research institution or a public museum and the activity is directly related to the work of that institution or museum; or

        (b)     the applicant is a student of a post-secondary education institution and the activity is directly related to research to be carried out by the student in the course of the student's education at that institution; or

        (c)     the applicant is, or is acting on behalf of a person who is, authorised under the Act or these Regulations to conduct an aquaculture activity that relates to the protected aquatic biota and the application is to facilitate that activity; or

        (d)     the applicant is responsible for the preparation of an environment effects statement or a supplementary statement under the Environment Effects Act 1978 and the activity is necessary for or related to the preparation of that statement; or

        (e)     the applicant is authorised by a consent under Division 2 of Part 7 of the Marine and Coastal Act 2018 to carry out a dredging operation that may affect the protected aquatic biota and the application relates to that activity.

Division 2—Noxious aquatic species permits