EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1988 No. 30
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary
Industries and Energy
FISHERIES ACT 1952
FISHERIES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
The Fisheries Act 1952 provides for the Governor-General to make regulations providing short methods of reference to specified areas of proclaimed waters and the purposes for which those short references may be used.
The regulations inserts new sub-regulation 21(1) into the Fisheries Regulations, providing that the area of proclaimed waters described in Schedule 3 may be referred to as “the area of waters adjacent to Western Australia on the landward side of the 200-metre isobath” for the purposes of the full range of matters authorised by or under the Act in which reference to the area by means of a short description might be appropriate or convenient.
Regulation 3 inserts Schedule 3 which describes the area by metes and bounds, taking account of maritime delimitation lines specified in international agreements to which Australia is a party. The co-ordinates listed in Schedule 3 have been provided by the Surveying and Land Information Group of the Department of Administrative Services. The Department of Fisheries in Western Australia has examined those of the co-ordinates that are not specified in international agreements and declared itself satisfied that the line they describe represents a delineation of the 200 metre isobath that is practical for fisheries purposes.