Western Australian Current Regulations Western Australian Current Regulations (1) Subject to
subregulation (2), a person who is placing pearl oysters, other than
pearl oysters being held on a nursery site, in a designated container shall,
as soon as the designated container is full, affix a tag to the designated
container by pulling the locking tail of the tag through the locking head of
the tag.
Penalty: $2 000.
(2) If there are
insufficient pearl oysters with which to fill the last designated container in
which pearl oysters are placed after the last dive of the day has been made,
the person who is placing pearl oysters in that designated container shall
affix a tag to that designated container in the manner specified in
subregulation (1) as soon as the last pearl oyster has been placed in
that designated container.
Penalty: $2 000.
(2a) Unless otherwise
approved, a person shall not remove pearl oysters from a nursery site for the
purpose of subjecting them to pearl seeding operations unless a tag has been
affixed, in the manner described in subregulation (1), to the designated
container in which those pearl oysters are being held.
Penalty: $2 000.
(3) A person shall not
affix a tag to a designated container if another tag is already affixed to the
designated container.
Penalty: $2 000.
[Regulation 29 amended: Gazette
17 Dec 1999 p. 6210.]