Fisheries Management Act 1994 Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Skippers) Regulation 1997 (1997-160) [GG No 43 of 24.4.1997, p 2240] (NSW)

1997 No 160

New South Wales

Fisheries Management (General)

Amendment (Skippers) Regulation

1997

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

His Excellency the Governor, with the advice of the Executive Council, has made the following Regulation under the Fisheries Management Act 1994.

Bob Martin

Minister for Mineral Resources and Minister for Fisheries

Explanatory note

At present, special endorsements are available in certain restricted fisheries which authorise a commercial fisher to take fish for sale in the restricted fishery while acting as a skipper of a boat. These endorsements are called skipper’s endorsements (formerly called temporary skipper’s endorsements) and conditional skipper’s endorsements.

The objects of this Regulation are:

(a)	to change the eligibility requirements for those endorsements, and
(b)	to make skipper’s endorsements available in the purse seine net sector of the ocean hauling restricted fishery.

This Regulation is made under the Fisheries Management Act 1994, including section 113 (2) (relating to eligibility for endorsements), section 116 (other regulations) and section 289 (the general regulation making power).

Published in Gazette No 43 of 24 April 1997, page 2240 Page 1

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Clause 1 Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Skippers) Regulation 1997

Fisheries Management (General) Amendment

(Skippers) Regulation 1997

1 Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Fisheries Management (General)
Amendment (Skippers) Regulation 1997.

2 Amendment of Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 1995

The Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 1995 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

3 Notes

The explanatory note does not form part of this Regulation.

Schedule 1 Amendments

(Clause 2)

[1]        Clause 212R Skipper’s endorsement

Omit “temporary” wherever occurring.

1. Clause 212R (1) (e)

   Insert after clause 2 12R (1) (d):

(e) ocean hauling restricted fishery (but only in that part of the fishery that relates to the use of a purse seine net to take fish for sale).

[3]        Clause 212R (3) (d)

Omit the paragraph.

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Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Skippers) Regulation 1997

Amendments Schedule 1

[4]        Clause 212S Conditional skipper’s endorsement

Omit clause 212S (3) (b). Insert instead:

(b) the owner of the offshore prawn trawl boat agrees to give up any entitlement the owner has to any endorsement in the estuary general restricted fishery or the ocean hauling restricted fishery.

[5]        Clause 212X Eligibility for an endorsement (owners of fishing businesses)

Insert after clause 212X (6):

(6A) The Director is to refuse to approve any nomination made in respect of a fishing business that is owned or partly owned by a person who holds a skipper’s endorsement under clause 212R in respect of a fishing business that is owned by another person.