FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 - SECT 23 Certain decisions to be provisional

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 - SECT 23

  (1)   Where AFMA or a Joint Authority makes a decision as to the person or persons to whom the grant of a fishing right in a managed fishery is to be made, not being a grant or grants to be made after:

  (a)   the holding of an auction in respect of the grant; or

  (b)   the calling of tenders in respect of the grant;

the following provisions of this section apply.

  (2)   AFMA or the Joint Authority, as the case may be, by notice published in the Gazette , must set out the name of the person or persons to whom the fishing rights are to be granted and a summary of the fishing rights to be granted to each such person.

  (3)   A grant of a fishing right must not be made to such a person:

  (a)   before the end of the period within which, under section   143, applications to the Panel may be made for review of the decision in relation to the grant; or

  (b)   if an application in relation to the decision is made to the Panel under section   143--before the application is dealt with by the Panel or otherwise disposed of.