Fisheries Management (Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fishery) Amendment (Fishing Gear Requirements) Regulations 2025
I, the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC KC, Administrator of the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.
Dated 4 September 2025
Margaret Beazley AC KC
Administrator
By Her Excellency’s Command
Julie Collins
Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Schedules
Schedule 1—Amendments
Fisheries Management (Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fishery) Regulations 2002
This instrument is the Fisheries Management (Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fishery) Amendment (Fishing Gear Requirements) Regulations 2025.
(1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
Commencement information | ||
Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
1. The whole of this instrument | The day after this instrument is registered. | 16 September 2025 |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.
This instrument is made under the Fisheries Management Act 1991.
Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.
1 Subregulation 3(2) (note)
Omit:
eligible boat
2 Subregulation 3(2) (note)
Omit:
holder
ICVMS
identification code
3 Subregulation 3(2) (note)
Omit:
owner
4 Part 4
Repeal the Part.
5 After Part 9
Insert:
(1) Regulation 8, as in force immediately before the commencement of the Fisheries Management (Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fishery) Amendment (Fishing Gear Requirements) Regulations 2025, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to the use of a trawl net before that commencement.
(2) Regulation 9, as in force immediately before the commencement of the Fisheries Management (Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fishery) Amendment (Fishing Gear Requirements) Regulations 2025, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to the use of a bobbin, or a rock hopper rubber disc, before that commencement.
(3) Regulation 10, as in force immediately before the commencement of the Fisheries Management (Heard Island and McDonald Islands Fishery) Amendment (Fishing Gear Requirements) Regulations 2025, continues to apply on and after that commencement in relation to the use of a net monitor cable before that commencement.
6 Schedule 1
Repeal the Schedule.