Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3) (Cth)

Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3)1

Statutory Rules 2001 No. 1902

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 28 June 2001

WILLIAM DEANE

Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command

WILSON TUCKEY

Minister for Forestry and Conservation

1Name of Regulations

 These Regulations are the Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3).

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 4A

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For

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• (1)  

    For

[2]Regulation 4A

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• (2)

  For the purposes of subsection 4 (7) of the Act, the amendments of the Treaty set out in Schedule 4A have effect for the purposes of the Act.

[3]Schedule 4, heading

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Schedule 4Amendments of the Treaty taking effect on 16 June 1993

(subregulation 4A (1))

[4]After Schedule 4

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Schedule 4AAmendments of the Treaty taking effect on the commencement of the Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2001 (No. 3)

(subregulation 4A (2))

1Article 3.2

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• 3.2

  It shall be a condition of any licence issued pursuant to this Treaty that the vessel in respect of which the licence is issued is operated in accordance with the requirements of Annex I. No fishing vessel of the United States shall be used for fishing in the Licensing Area without a licence issued in accordance with annex II or in waters closed to fishing pursuant to Annex I, except in accordance with paragraph 3 of this Article, or unless the vessel is used for fishing albacore tuna by the trolling method or for fishing by the longline method, in high sea areas of the treaty area.

2Annex I, Schedule 2, item dealing with Papua New Guinea

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 Papua New Guinea   At all times, all territorial seas, archipelagic waters and internal waters.

3Annex I, Schedule 2, item dealing with Solomon Islands

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Solomon Islands   At all times, all internal waters, territorial seas, and, archipelagic waters, together with, all waters within the exclusive economic zone of the Solomon Islands that are west of the meridian of Longitude of 163° East.

4Annex I, Schedule 3, paragraphs 1 to 3

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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, 337, 338 and 339; 2001 Nos. 3, 22 and 302; 2002 Nos. 25, 27, 60 and 157.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette