Proclamation amending Act (2003-16) (NSW)

2003 No 16

New South Wales

Proclamation

under the

Fisheries Management Act 1994

MARIE BASHIR, Governor

I, Professor Marie Bashir AC, Governor of the State of New South Wales, with the advice of the Executive Council, and in pursuance of section 42 of the Fisheries Management Act 1994, do, by this my Proclamation, amend Schedule 1 (Share management fisheries) to that Act, with effect on 17 January 2003, as set out in Appendix 1 to this Proclamation.

Signed and sealed at Sydney, this 15th day of January 2003.

By Her Excellency’s Command,

The Hon EDWARD OBEID, M.L.C.,

Minister for Fisheries

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Explanatory note

Schedule 1 to the Fisheries Management Act 1994 specifies share management fisheries for the purposes of that Act. The object of this Proclamation is to amend that Schedule by omitting the description of the ocean hauling fishery in clause 9 and by reinstating an amended description of that share management fishery. The effect of these amendments is to exclude the waters of Botany Bay from the description of the ocean hauling fishery.

Published in Gazette No 14 of 17 January 2003, page 222 Page 1
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Proclamation

Appendix 1	Amendment of Part 2 of Schedule 1 (Share management fisheries) to the Act
Appendix 1	Amendment of Part 2 of Schedule 1 (Share management fisheries) to the Act

Clause 9 Ocean hauling fishery

Omit the description of the fishery under the heading “Description of fishery”.

Insert instead:

(1)

The ocean hauling fishery consists of the use of a hauling net or purse seine net to take fish from any of the following waters:

(a)	ocean waters within 3 nautical miles of the natural coast line,
(b)	the waters of Jervis Bay,
(c)	the waters of Coffs Harbour.

(2)

The ocean hauling fishery extends to the use of any net by the method of hauling to take fish from any of the waters referred to in subclause (1).

BY AUTHORITY

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