FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 - SECT 33 Grant of scientific permits
FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 - SECT 33
Grant of scientific permits(1) AFMA may, upon application made in the approved form, grant to a person a scientific permit in respect of a specified boat (including a foreign boat) authorising the use of the boat by that person, or a person acting on that person's behalf, for scientific research purposes in a specified area of the AFZ or a specified fishery.
(2) An application made for the grant of a scientific permit must provide AFMA with such information as it reasonably requires for a proper consideration of the application.
(3) A scientific permit is granted subject to the following conditions:
(a) if the permit authorises the use of a boat for scientific research purposes in a specified managed fishery--the permit will cease to have effect in relation to that fishery if the plan of management for the fishery is revoked under subsection 20(3);
(b) the permit may, under subsection 75(7), cease to have effect;
(c) the permit may be revoked under subsection (6);
(d) no compensation is payable because the permit is revoked, ceases to have effect or ceases to apply to a fishery.
Note: For further provisions relating to conditions imposed on scientific permits see subsections (4), (5A) and sections 40C and 42A.
(a) is subject to such other conditions as are specified in the permit; and
(b) comes into force on the day specified for the purpose in the permit or, if no day is so specified, on the day on which it is granted; and
(c) subject to this Act, remains in force until the day specified for the purpose in the permit, being a day not later than 6 months after the day on which it came into force.
(5) Without limiting the operation of subsection (4), the conditions that may be specified in a scientific permit include conditions relating to:
(a) the carriage on board the boat concerned of persons nominated by AFMA to make scientific observations; or
(b) the sale or disposal of fish taken during the course of activities carried out under the permit.
(5A) It is also a condition of a scientific permit relating to a fishery that the holder of the permit comply with a direction under section 41A that relates to the fishery.
(6) AFMA may, by written notice given to the holder of a scientific permit, whether or not at the request of the holder:
(b) vary or revoke a condition to which the permit is subject (not being a condition mentioned in subsection (5A)) or specify a condition or further condition to which the permit is to be subject.
(7) A scientific permit ceases to be in force if the holder of the permit surrenders the permit by written notice given to AFMA.
(8) A scientific permit is to be in the approved form.