Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Abalone) Regulation 2005 (NSW)

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New South Wales

Fisheries Management (General)

Amendment (Abalone) Regulation 2005

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

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

IAN MACDONALD, M.L.C., Minister for Primary Industries

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to amend the Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 2002 to reduce the maximum quantity of abalone that a person may take on any one day, or that a person may have in his or her possession in certain circumstances, from 10 to 2 (this limit does not apply in respect of abalone taken by a commercial fisher for sale or abalone in possession of a commercial fisher for sale). Since 1 July 2005, this reduction has been in place pursuant to a fishing closure order made under section 8 of the Fisheries Management Act 1994.
This Regulation is made under the Fisheries Management Act 1994, including sections 17,

18 and 289 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 140 of 18 November 2005, page 9407	Page 1
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Clause 1	Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Abalone) Regulation 2005

Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Abalone)

Regulation 2005

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Fisheries Management (General) Amendment
(Abalone) Regulation 2005.

2 Amendment of Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 2002

The Fisheries Management (General) Regulation 2002 is amended as set out in Schedule 1.

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Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Abalone) Regulation 2005

Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1	Amendment

(Clause 2)

Part 2 Protected fish, protected waters, prohibited size fish and bag limits

Omit “10” from the matter relating to abalone in Column 2 of Part 2 of the

Table to Division 3.

Insert instead “2”.

BY AUTHORITY