Whaling Regulations (Amendment) (Cth)
REGULATION UNDER THE WHALING ACT 1960.*
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
Dated this twenty-seventh day of October, 1977.
JOHN R. KERR
Governor-General.
By His Excellency’s Command,
IAN SINCLAIR
Minister of State for Primary Industry.
Amendment of the Whaling Regulations
Regulation 12 of the Whaling Regulations is repealed and the following regulation substituted:—
“ 12. (1) For the purposes of the Act and of these Regulations, whales shall be measured in accordance with this regulation.
“ (2) A whale shall be measured—
(a) when it is at rest on the deck of a ship or on a platform; and
(b) after the hauling up wire and grasping device used to remove the whale to that deck or platform have been released.
“ (3) The length of a whale shall be taken to be the minimum distance (ascertained, to the nearest centimetre, by means of a tape-measure of non-stretching material) between—
(a) a vertical line passing through a point, being—
(i) in the case of a whale other than a sperm whale—the tip of the upper jaw of the whale; or
(ii) in the case of a sperm whale—the most forward point of the head of the whale; and
(b) a vertical line passing through another point, being the apex of the notch between the tail flukes of the whale.
* Notified in the
Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 3 November 1977.Statutory Rules 1961, No. 65 as amended by Statutory Rules 1975, No. 105.
“ (4) For the purposes of sub-regulation (3), the zero end of the tape-measure referred to in that sub-regulation shall be attached to a spike or other stable device and, unless it is impracticable to do so, the measurement shall be taken along the back of the whale.”.
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