Fisheries Levy (Northern Prawn Fishery) Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules 1986 No. 3971

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Fisheries Levy (Northern Prawn Fishery) Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Fisheries Levy Act 1984.

Dated 18 December 1986.

N. M. STEPHEN

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

JOHN KERIN

Minister of State for Primary Industry

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Commencement

1. Regulations 2 and 3 shall be deemed to have come into operation on 1 March 1986.

2. Regulation 5 of the Fisheries Levy (Northern Prawn Fishery) Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:

Prescribed units of fishing capacity

“5. (1) For the purposes of paragraphs 5 (bc) and (bd) of the Act, each of the following units of fishing capacity is a prescribed unit of fishing capacity:

(a) a Class A unit of fishing capacity, other than a suspense unit, that is allocated to a person in accordance with the plan of management and that is the subject of an application made by that person during a prescribed period for assignment to a boat in respect of which a licence under sub-section 9 (2) of the Fisheries Act is in force when that unit is so allocated;

 

(b) a Class A unit of fishing capacity, other than a unit referred to in paragraph (a) or a suspense unit, allocated in accordance with the plan of management.

“(2) In this regulation, ‘prescribed period’ means—

(a) the period that commenced on 1 March 1986 and ended on the expiration of 30 April 1986; and

(b) the period commencing on 1 March in any subsequent year and ending on the expiration of 30 April in that year.”.

Amounts of levy

3. Regulation 6 of the Fisheries Levy (Northern Prawn Fishery) Regulations is amended by omitting sub-regulations (2) and (3) and substituting the following sub-regulations:

“(2) The amount of the levy imposed by paragraph 5 (bc) of the Act on the allocation of a prescribed unit of fishing capacity referred to in paragraph 5 (1) (a) of these Regulations is—

(a) where the number of Class A units of fishing capacity determined under the plan of management in relation to the boat is not more than 375—$5; or

(b) in any other case—$10.

“(3) The amount of the levy imposed by paragraph 5 (bc) of the Act on the allocation of a prescribed unit of fishing capacity referred to in paragraph 5 (1) (b) of these Regulations is $10.

“(4) The amount of the levy imposed by paragraph 5 (bd) of the Act on the renewal of the allocation of a prescribed unit of fishing capacity referred to in paragraph 5 (1) (a) of these Regulations is—

(a) where the number of Class A units of fishing capacity determined under the plan of management in relation to the boat is not more than 375—$5; or

(b) in any other case—$10.

“(5) The amount of the levy imposed by paragraph 5 (bd) of the Act on the renewal of the allocation of a prescribed unit of fishing capacity referred to in paragraph 5 (1) (b) of these Regulations is $10.”.

 

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 12 January 1987.

2. Statutory Rules 1986 No. 18.