Statutory Rules 1994   No. 1251

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Fisheries Management Regulations2 (Amendment)

I, THE ADMINISTRATOR of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following Regulations under the Fisheries Management Act 1991.

Dated 26 April 1994.

 P. BENNETT

 Administrator

By His Excellency’s Command,

DAVID BEDDALL

Minister for Resources

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1.   Amendment

1.1   The Fisheries Management Regulations are amended as set out in these Regulations.

[NOTE: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act 1901, s. 48.]

2.   Regulation 4 (Application of the Act to areas outside the AFZ)

2.1   Add at the end:

 “(2) For the purposes of subsection 8 (1) of the Act, the Act applies to:

 (a) Australian citizens; and

 (b) bodies corporate that are incorporated in Australia or carry on activities mainly in Australia; and

 (c) Australian boats; and

 (d) persons on board an Australian boat;

that are fishing for southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) in the part of the area of waters described in subregulation (3) that is beyond the outer limits of the AFZ.

 “(3) The area of waters is the area, the boundary of which:

 (a) commences at the equator at the point at which the equator is intersected by the meridian of longitude 50° west; and

 (b) runs thence east along the equator, to its intersection by the the meridian of longitude 140° west; and

 (c) runs thence south along that meridian to its intersection by the parallel of latitude 60° south; and

 (d) runs thence west along that parallel to its intersection by the meridian of longitude 50° west; and

 (e) runs thence north along that meridian to the point of commencement.

[NOTE:   The outer limits of the AFZ are determined by reference to the definition of “Australian fishing zone” in subsection 4 (1) of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 and the Proclamation of Excepted Waters under section 11 of that Act published in Gazette  No. S52 on 14 February 1992.]”.

3.   Regulation 31 (Logbooks)

3.1   Subregulation 31 (1):

Add at the end:

 “; or (g) fishing, to which the Act applies, beyond the outer limits of the AFZ; or

 (h) sale or other disposal of fish taken in fishing beyond the outer limits of the AFZ.

[NOTE:   The outer limits of the AFZ are determined by reference to the definition of “Australian fishing zone” in subsection 4 (1) of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 and the Proclamation of Excepted Waters under section 11 of that Act published in Gazette  No. S52 on 14 February 1992.]”.

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NOTES

1. Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on  3 May 1994.

2. Statutory Rules 1992 No. 20 as amended by 1992 No. 455; 1993 Nos. 74, 118 and 296; 1994 No. 77.