Fisheries Management (General) Amendment (Protected Fish) Regulation 2004 (NSW)

2004 No 207

New South Wales

Fisheries Management (General)

Amendment (Protected Fish)

Regulation 2004

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 MICHAEL MACDONALD, M.L.C.,

Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries

Explanatory note
The object of this Regulation is to add certain species of fish to the species that are prescribed as protected fish under the Fisheries Management Act 1994.

Under section 19 of that Act, a person who catches, kills, gathers or collects a protected fish, or removes a protected fish from any rock or other matter (or attempts to do any of those things), or who has a protected fish in his or her possession, is guilty of an offence and liable to a maximum fine of $55,000 in the case of a corporation or a maximum fine of $11,000 or imprisonment for up to 3 months (or both) in the case of an individual.

This Regulation is made under the Fisheries Management Act 1994, including sections

19 (Protected fish) and 289 (the general regulation-making power).

Published in Gazette No 77 of 30 April 2004, page 2226	Page 1
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Clause 1	2004

Fisheries Management (General) Amendment

(Protected Fish) Regulation 2004

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

1      Name of Regulation

This Regulation is the Fisheries Management (General)

Amendment (Protected Fish) Regulation 2004.

2 Commencement

This Regulation commences on 1 July 2004.

3 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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Amendment	Schedule 1
Schedule 1 Amendment

(Clause 3)

Clause 6 Protected fish

Insert in alphabetical order in Part 1 (Marine or estuarine species) of the

Table to clause 6:

Ghost pipefish	All species of the family Solenostomidae
Pipefish, pipehorse, seadragon and seahorse	All species of the family Syngnathidae
Seamoth	All species of the family Pegasidae

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