Torres Strait Fisheries Management Notice No. 49 (16/04/1998) (Cth)

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Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984
Fisheries Management Notice No 49

TORRES STRAIT PRAWN FISHERY

(AMENDMENT TO FISHERIES MANAGEMENT NOTICE NO. 40)

I, Senator the Hon Warwick Parer, Commonwealth Minister for Resources and


Energy and Chairman of the Protected Zone Joint Authority, acting on behalf of


the Authority in accordance with the powers conferred on the Authority by


paragraph 35(1)(a) of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, make the following


notice under section 16 of the Act.

Dated this sixteenth day of April 1998

WARWICK PARER

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CITATION

1.    This notice may be cited as Torres
       Strait Fisheries Management
       Notice No 49.

AMENDMENT OF FISHERIES
MANAGEMENT NOTICE NO. 40

5.  Fisheries Management Notice No.
     40, dated 25 February 1994, is
     amended by deleting paragraph
     9.1 and substituting the following:

     "9.1   Pursuant to paragraph 16(1)(a)
               of the Act:

               (a)    the taking of prawns is
   prohibited:

   (i)     in the area of the prawn
   fishery during the period
   commencing at 0600
   hours local time on
   1 December in any year
   and ending at 1700 hours
   local time on 1 March in
   the following year; and



COMMENCEMENT

2.    This Notice commences on
Gazettal.

APPLICATION

3.    This Notice applies in the area of
       the Torres Strait prawn fishery.

INTERPRETATION

4.1  In this notice, "the Act" means the
       Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984.

4.2  Terms defined in the Torres Strait
       Fisheries Act 1984
and the Torres
       Strait Fisheries Regulations have
       the same meanings in this Notice.

                      (ii)      in that part of the area of
   the prawn fishery that is
   within the area specified
   in Schedule 5, during the
   period commencing at
   1700 hours local time on
   1 March in any year and
   ending at 1700 hours
   local time on 31 July in
   the same year; and

           (b)      the carrying of prawns is
   prohibited in the area of the
   prawn fishery during the
   period commencing at 0600
   hours local time on
   15 December in any year
   and ending at 1700 hours
   local time on 1 March in the
   following year."

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