Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 2) (Cth)

Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 2)1

Statutory Rules 2003 No. 1122

I, GUY STEPHEN MONTAGUE GREEN, Administrator 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 12 June 2003

G. S. M. GREEN

Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command

IAN MACDONALD

Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation

1Name of Regulations

These Regulations are the Fisheries Management Amendment Regulations 2003 (No. 2).

2Commencement

These Regulations commence on gazettal.

3Amendment of Fisheries Management Regulations 1992

Schedule 1 amends the Fisheries Management Regulations 1992.

Schedule 1Amendment

(regulation 3)

  

[1]Subregulation 51 (3)

substitute

1. (3)

   However:

   1. (a)

      the limit mentioned in paragraph (2) (a) does not apply to black kingfish (Rachycentron canadus) that are taken from northern waters west of the meridian of longitude 129° east; and

   2. (b)

      the limit mentioned in paragraph (2) (b) does not apply to dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) that are taken from northern waters east of the boundary between Northern Territory and Queensland waters.

2. (4)

   For paragraph (3) (b), the boundary between Northern Territory and Queensland waters is the notional line commencing at a point that is the intersection of the coastline at mean low water with the boundary between the Northern Territory and Queensland, and running progressively:

   · north-easterly along the geodesic to the point of latitude 15° 55¢ south, longitude 138° 30¢ east;

   · north along that meridian to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 14° 30¢ south;

   · east along that parallel to its intersection with the meridian of longitude 139° 15¢ east;

   · north along that meridian to its intersection with the parallel of latitude 11° south.

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278 and 410; 1998 No. 24; 1999 Nos. 22, 98, 130 and 285; 2000 Nos. 56, 92, 310, 337, 338 and 339; 2001 Nos. 3, 22, 190 (repealed by 2002 No. 179) and 302; 2002 Nos. 25, 27, 60, 157 and 304; 2003 No. 9.

2. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette