Fisheries Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)

Statutory Rules

1980 No. 279

REGULATION UNDER THE FISHERIES ACT 19521

I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulation under the Fisheries Act 1952.

Dated this seventeenth day of September 1980.

 ZELMAN COWEN

 Governor-General

By His Excellency’s Command,

PETER NIXON

Minister of State for Primary Industry

AMENDMENT OF THE FISHERIES REGULATIONS2

  Regulations 3 to 4A (inclusive) of the Fisheries Regulations are repealed and the following regulations substituted:

Interpretation

• “3.

  In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears —

‘approved form’ means a form approved by the Minister;

‘licencing authority’ means the Minister or the Secretary and includes, in relation to the exercise of a power or the performance of a function that has been delegated by the Minister or the Secretary to a person or authority under sub-section 6A (1) of the Act, that person or authority;

‘master’, in relation to a boat, includes the person for the time being in charge of the boat;

‘nominated person’ means a person nominated by the Minister or the Secretary in pursuance of sub-regulation 12J (1);

‘the Act’ means the Fisheries Act 1952.

Payment of licence fees

“4.

A licencing authority shall not grant or transfer a licence under section 9 of the Act unless the fee prescribed by these Regulations in respect of the grant or transfer, as the case may be, of that licence has been paid.

Applications for licences

• “5.

  (1) An application for the grant, transfer or endorsement of a licence shall be made in the approved form.

• “(2)

  An application for the grant of a licence under sub-section 9 (2) or (3) of the Act shall be made not less than—

  • (a)

    except where paragraph (b) applies—30 days; or

  • (b)

    where the Minister or the Secretary in a particular case allows a number of days that is less than 30—the number of days so allowed,

before the date on which the licence so applied for is to come into force.

• “(3)

  An application for the grant, transfer or endorsement of a licence in respect of a foreign boat shall be lodged at the Department of Primary Industry in Canberra.”.

NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 25 September 1980.

2. Statutory Rules 1954 No. 116 as amended to date. For previous amendments see