Fisheries Act Amendment Act 1967 (WA)

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FISHERIES.

No. 73 of 1967.

AN ACT to amend the Fisheries Act, 1905-1966.

[Assented to 11th December, 1967.]

BE it enacted by the Queen's Most ExcellentMajesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Short title

and citation. 1. (1) This Act may be cited as the Fisheries Act

Amendment Act, 1967.

Reprinted as	(2)	In this Act the Fisheries Act, 1905-1966, is
approved for
reprint 10th

August, 1966,	referred to as the principal Act.
and amen ded
by Act No. 38

of 1966. (3) The principal Act as amended by this Act may

be cited as the Fisheries Act, 1905-1967.

Commence-

ment. 2. This Act shall come into operation on a date

to be fixed by proclamation.

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3. Subsection (2) of section thirty-five C of the si2g/ect.

principal Act is repealed and re-enacted with

amendments, as follows

(2) The Director shall consider each applica- tion for the renewal or grant of a processor's license and where he is satisfied

(a)	in the case of an application for the renewal of a license, that the processing establishment the subject of t h e application is constructed, equipped and operated in an efficient and hygienic manner and in conformity with the provisions of this Act and the regulations; or
(b)	in the case of an application for the grant of a license, that-

(i)   the processing establishment the subject of the application is constructed, equipped and capable of being operated in an efficient and hygienic manner and in conformity with the provisions of this Act and the regulations; and

(ii)    having regard to the number of processing establishments in respect of which licenses under this section are then in force, and to the sizes and natures of those establishments, it is in the better interests of the fishing industry that the application should be granted,

he shall grant the application, and where he is not so satisfied he shall refuse the application and, by notice in writing, advise the applicant of the grounds of his refusal. .

4. Section thirty-five L of the principal Act is	S. 35L
amended.

amended

(a) by deleting paragraph (b) of subsection (2) and substituting the following paragraph

(b) the proceeds of the sale of fish taken in the course of the carrying out of

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any activities for which moneys in the Fund may be expended under subsection (3) of this section; ; and

(b) by substituting for the passage, ", and the provision of extension services, relating to fisheries" in lines five, six and seven of subsection (3), the words, "of fisheries and the provision of extension services related to fisheries".