Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 5) (Cth)

Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2000 (No. 5)1

Statutory Rules 2000 No. 3382

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. 5).

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]After paragraph 4B (e)

insert

• (ea)

  the Norfolk Island Offshore Demersal Finfish Fishery, being fishing activity engaged in in the area set out in Part 5A of Schedule 1A;

[2]After paragraph 4B (ka)

insert

• (kb)

  the Victorian Inshore Trawl Fishery, being fishing activity engaged in in the area set out in Part 11B of Schedule 1A;

[3]Schedule 1A, after Part 5

insert

Part 5AArea of the Norfolk Island Offshore Demersal Finfish Fishery

 The part of the AFZ that surrounds Norfolk Island, except the area bounded by a notional line beginning at latitude 28° 38¢ south, longitude 167° 40¢ east and running progressively:

· east along the parallel of latitude 28° 38¢ south to its intersection by the meridian of longitude 168° 20¢ east;

· south along that meridian to its intersection by the parallel of latitude 29° 45¢ south;

· west along that parallel to its intersection by the meridian of longitude 167° 40¢ east;

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

[4]Schedule 1A, after Part 11A

insert

Part 11BArea of the Victorian Inshore Trawl Fishery

 The coastal waters of Victoria, except:

(a) the area described in Part 1 (Wilsons Promontory Marine Reserve) of Schedule 4 to the National Parks Act 1975 of Victoria as in force on 1 November 1997; and

(b) the area described in Part 2 (Wilsons Promontory Marine Park) of Schedule 4 to the National Parks Act 1975 of Victoria as in force on 1 November 1997; and

(c) the area described in Part 7 (Bunurong Marine Park) of Schedule 4 to the National Parks Act 1975 of Victoria as in force on 1 November 1997; and

(d) the area described in Schedule 2 (Point Lonsdale) to the Harold Holt Marine Reserves Proclamation 1979 of Victoria, published in the Government Gazette of Victoria, No. 11 on 7 February 1979; and

(e) the area described in Schedule 3 (Point Nepean) to the Harold Holt Marine Reserves Proclamation 1979 of Victoria, published in the Government Gazette of Victoria, No. 11 on 7 February 1979.

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, 310 and 337.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette