(1) A person may use a boat, or allow a boat to be used, to carry fish taken for trade or commerce, only if the person holds a carrier boat licence or another authority allowing the use of the boat for carrying fish taken for trade or commerce.
(2) Despite subsection (1), a person is not required to hold a carrier boat licence or other authority mentioned in subsection (1), for using a boat, or allowing a boat to be used for carrying--
(a) dead fish on a registered commercial ship in Queensland waters north of latitude 17deg;52' south (the relevant tropical waters); or
(b) dead fish, other than regulated coral reef fin fish, on a commercial fishing boat in the relevant tropical waters.
(3) In this section--
registered commercial ship means a boat registered as a commercial ship under the Transport Operations (Marine Safety) Act 1994.