EXPLANATORY STATEMENT
STATUTORY RULES 1987 No. 135
Issued by the Authority of the Minister for Primary Industry
FISHERIES ACT 1952
FISHERIES REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
Regulation 1 of the amending regulations creates the offence of failing to return a licence to the Department within 14 days of being notified that that licence is cancelled. Penalty - $100 in the case of a natural person or of $500 in the case of a body corporate.
Regulation 2 repeals sub-regulation 10(2) and substitutes alternative methods of determining the overall length of a boat for purposes of determining the amount of licence fee payable. If the application for the licence is made simultaneously with application to assign to the boat, units of fishing capacity under a plan of management that provides for measurement of the length of the boat, then that measurement is the overall length for fee purposes. In any other case, the method previously prescribed by the repealed sub-regulation 10(2) applies.
Regulation 3 amends regulation 16 to empower the Minister to publish logbooks requiring the provision of information relating to the carrying and transhipping of fish taken in Australian waters.
Regulation 4 amends regulation 18 to create the offence of causing to be entered in a logbook information that is known to be false or misleading in a material particular. The penalty is $2000.