Torres Strait Fisheries Management Notice No. 49 (16/04/1998) (Cth)
Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984
Fisheries Management Notice No 49TORRES 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. 405. 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; andCOMMENCEMENT
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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