Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) A person who
carries out activities in coastal waters under a licence or special purpose
consent granted under this Act must not do so in a way that interferes with
—
(a)
navigation; or
(b) the
exercise of native title rights and interests; or
(c)
fishing, pearling or aquaculture; or
(d) the
conservation of the resources of the sea or the seabed; or
(e) any
activities that someone else is lawfully carrying out,
to a greater extent
than is necessary for —
(f) the
reasonable exercise of the person’s rights under the licence or consent;
or
(g) the
performance of the person’s duties under the licence or consent.
Maximum penalty: $10 000.
Note:
The person referred to
here might be the licence holder or consent holder or might be an associated
person.
(2) In subsection
(1)(1)(c) —
aquaculture and fishing have the same meanings as
they have in the Fish Resources Management Act 1994 ;
pearling has the same meaning as it has in the
Pearling Act 1990 .