2004
   The Parliament of the
   Commonwealth of Australia
   THE SENATE
   Presented and read a first time
   Fisheries (Validation of Plans of Management) Bill 2004
   No. , 2004
   (Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry)
   A Bill for an Act to provide certainty about the validity of certain
   plans of management under the Fisheries Management Act 1991, and for
   related purposes

   Contents

   A Bill for an Act to provide certainty about the validity of certain
   plans of management under the Fisheries Management Act 1991, and for
   related purposes

   The Parliament of Australia enacts:

      1 Short title

   This Act may be cited as the Fisheries (Validation of Plans of
   Management) Act 2004.

      2 Commencement

   This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

      3 Plans of management

   (1) The purpose of this section is to provide certainty about the
   validity of:

   (a) certain plans of management determined under the Fisheries
   Management Act 1991; and

   (b) things done under or for the purposes of those plans.

   (2) A plan of management determined, or purported to have been
   determined, by the Managing Director, or acting Managing Director, of
   the Australian Fisheries Management Authority under section 17 of the
   Fisheries Management Act 1991 before the commencement of this section
   has effect, and is taken always to have had effect, as if it had been
   determined by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.

   (3) Any amendment or revocation of such a plan made by the Managing
   Director, or acting Managing Director, of the Australian Fisheries
   Management Authority under section 20 of the Fisheries Management Act
   1991 before the commencement of this section has effect, and is taken
   always to have had effect, as if it had been made by the Australian
   Fisheries Management Authority.

   (4) Anything done under or for the purposes of such a plan of
   management, or such a plan of management amended as mentioned in
   subsection (3), is as valid, and is taken always to have been as valid,
   as it would have been if the plan had been determined, and the
   amendment had been made, by the Australian Fisheries Management
   Authority.