FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 - SECT 61 Establishment of Joint Authorities
FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1991 - SECT 61
Establishment of Joint Authorities(1) The Commonwealth may make an arrangement with a State or States for the establishment of a Joint Authority consisting of the Commonwealth Minister together with the appropriate Minister or Ministers of that State or those States.
(2) Each arrangement is to be made by instrument approved by the Governor - General and the Governor or Governors of the State or States represented on the Joint Authority.
(3) A Joint Authority may be abolished by a further such instrument, but such an instrument does not take effect while there is in operation an arrangement under Division 3 providing that the Joint Authority is to have the management of a particular fishery.
(4) The Commonwealth Minister is to cause a copy of every
instrument so approved to be published in the Gazette and, subject to
subsection (3), the instrument takes effect on the day of publication.