Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 4) (Cth)

Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 4)1

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 3372

I, WILLIAM PATRICK DEANE, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

Dated 13 December 2000

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

WARREN TRUSS

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 4).

2Commencement

 These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3Amendment of Fisheries Management Regulations 1992

Schedule 1 amends the Fisheries Management Regulations 1992.

Schedule 1Amendments

  

(regulation 3)

[1]Regulation 4

omit

baselines

insert

baseline

[2]Regulation 4AB, heading

substitute

4ABConvention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources sub-area 58.5.2

[3]After regulation 4AC

insert

4ADFurther area to which the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources applies

• (1)

  For subsection 8 (1) of the Act, the Act applies in relation to the area of waters described in subregulation (2), to:

  • (a)

    Australian citizens; and

  • (b)

    bodies corporate that are incorporated in Australia or carry on activities mainly in Australia; and

  • (c)

    Australian boats; and

  • (d)

    persons on board Australian boats.

• (2)

  The area of waters is the area bounded by a line beginning at latitude 62° south, longitude 30° east and running progressively:

   · east along the parallel of latitude 62° south to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 60° east

   · north along that meridian to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 55° south

   · east along that parallel to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 89° east

   · south along that meridian to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 64° south

   · west along that parallel to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 80° east

   · south along that meridian to its intersection with the baseline by reference to which the territorial limits of the Australian Antarctic Territory are defined under international law

   · generally westerly along that baseline to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 30° east

   · north along that meridian to the point where the line began.

Notes

1. These Regulations amend Statutory Rules 1992 No. 20, as amended by 1992 No. 455; 1993 Nos. 74, 118 and 296; 1994 Nos. 77, 125 and 419; 1995 Nos. 285 and 360; 1996 Nos. 67 and 317; 1997 Nos. 19, 95, 186, 278 and 410; 1998 No. 24; 1999 Nos. 22, 98, 130 and 285; 2000 Nos. 56, 92 and 310.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette