FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 - SECT 57A The High Seas Register
FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 - SECT 57A
The High Seas Register(1) AFMA must establish and must maintain a separate register, to be called the High Seas Register, containing particulars of all Australian - flagged boats that are authorised from time to time to engage in fishing activities on the high seas.
(2) The Register may be kept wholly or partly by use of a computer.
(3) If the Register is kept wholly or partly by use of a computer:
(a) references in this Act to an entry in the Register are to be read as including references to a record of particulars kept by use of the computer and comprising the Register or a part of the Register; and
(b) references in this Act to particulars being entered in the Register are to be read as including references to the keeping of a record of those particulars as part of the Register by use of the computer; and
(c) references in this Act to the rectification of the Register
are to be read as including references to the rectification of the record of
particulars kept by use of the computer and comprising the Register or part of
the Register.