Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Fishing Activities) Regulation 2003 (NSW)

2003 No 920

New South Wales

Environmental Planning and

Assessment Amendment (Fishing

Activities) Regulation 2003

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

Her Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

CRAIG KNOWLES, M.P.,

Minister for Infrastructure and Planning and

Minister for Natural Resources

Explanatory note

Currently, designated fishing activities that are listed in Schedule 1A to the Fisheries Management Act 1994 are not subject to the general provisions of Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979 (the Act). Designated fishing activities were to be brought within the scope of Division 5 of that Part on 31 December 2003.

The object of this Regulation is to extend the period during which the provisions of Part 5 of the Act do not apply, so as to allow additional time for fisheries management strategies to be developed for each designated fishing activity. This is necessary because a fisheries management strategy is the basis for environmental assessment under Division 5 of that Part. This Regulation extends the deadline to 31 December 2004.

Non-designated fishing activities are also exempt from the requirements of Part 5 of the Act. However, those activities were to be bought within the scope of the general provisions of Part 5 (other than Division 5) on 31 December 2003. This Regulation also extends that deadline to 31 December 2004.

This Regulation is made under the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, including sections 110 (1) (definition of activity), 115R (2) (b) and 157 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 196 of 12 December 2003, page 11178	Page 1
2003 No 920	Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Fishing Activities)
Clause 1	Regulation 2003

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment

(Fishing Activities) Regulation 2003

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Environmental Planning and Assessment
Amendment (Fishing Activities) Regulation 2003.

2 Amendment of Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000

The Environmental Planning and Assessment Regulation 2000 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

Environmental Planning and Assessment Amendment (Fishing Activities)	2003 No 920
Regulation 2003
Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendment

(Clause 2)

Clauses 244B (1) and 244C

Omit “31 December 2003” wherever occurring.

Insert instead “31 December 2004”.

BY AUTHORITY