Fisheries and Oyster Farms (Amendment) Act 1988 (NSW)

FISHERIES AND OYSTER FARMS (AMENDMENT) ACT

1988 No. 118

NEW SOUTH WALES

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.     Short title

2. Commencement

3.     Amendment of Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 1935 No. 58

4.     Abolition of offence of fishing without an inland angling licence

5. Abolition of certain funds

FISHERIES AND OYSTER FARMS (AMENDMENT) ACT 1988

No. 118

NEW SOUTH WALES

Act No. 118, 1988

An Act to amend the Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 1935 to abolish inland	angling licences and certain Funds established under that Act, to validate	certain payments into and out of the Consolidated Fund; and for other
purposes. [Assented to 21 December 1988]

Fisheries and Oyster Farms (Amendment) 1988

The Legislature of New South Wales enacts:

Short title

1. This Act may be cited as the Fisheries and Oyster Farms

(Amendment) Act 1988.

Commencement

2.     This Act commences on the date of assent.

Amendment of Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 1935 No. 58

3.     Divisions 3A, 3B and 3c of Part 3 and sections 53 (4) and 90c (3) of

the Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 1935 are repealed.

Abolition of offence of fishing without an inland angling licence

4. No one shall be taken to have committed an offence under section

25B of the Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 1935 at any time after 18 April

1988.

Abolition of certain funds

5.     (1) The following funds kept under Part 3 of the Fisheries and Oyster

Farms Act 1935 are abolished:

(a) the Inland Fisheries Fund;

(b) the Tidal Angling Fund;

(c) the Commercial Fisheries Exploration and Development Fund.

(2) The balances standing to the credit of the funds referred to in subsection (1) immediately before their abolition shall be credited to the Consolidated Fund and shall be taken, for accounting purposes, to have been so credited on 30 June 1988.

(3) The payment of money on or after 1 July 1988 and before the

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(4) The payment of money on or after 1 July 1988 and before the commencement of the Appropriation Act 1988 out of the Consolidated Fund for a purpose authorised under the Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 1935 in relation to the payment of money from a fund referred to in subsection (1) is validated.

[Minister's second reading speech made in—

Legislative Assembly on 10 November 1988

Legislative Council on 7 December 1988]