FISHERIES (PAPUA NEW GUINEA BOATS) ACT 1974

No. 7 of 1974

An Act relating to Fishing Boats associated with Papua New Guinea.

BE IT ENACTED by the Queen, the Senate and the House of Representatives of Australia, as follows:—

Short title.

1. This Act may be cited as the Fisheries (Papua New Guinea Boats) Act 1974.

Commencement.

2. (1) Sections 1, 2 and 4 shall come into operation on the day on which this Act receives the Royal Assent.

(2) Section 3 shall come into operation on the coming into operation of section 4 of the Fisheries Act 1973.

Definitions.

3. Section 4 of the Fisheries Act 1973 is amended by inserting in the definition of “Australian boat” in paragraph (a), after the words “external Territory” (wherever occurring), the words “(other than Papua New Guinea)”.

Papua New Guinea boats before operation of amendments.

4. For the purposes of ascertaining whether or not, at any time after the coming into operation of this section and before the coming into operation of section 3, a boat was or is a foreign boat for the purposes the Fisheries Act 1952-1973, a reference in that Act to a Territory shall be taken not to include a reference to Papua New Guinea.

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