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TORRES STRAIT FISHERIES ACT 1984 - SECT 30 Establishment of Protected Zone Joint Authority

TORRES STRAIT FISHERIES ACT 1984 - SECT 30

Establishment of Protected Zone Joint Authority

  (1)   For the purposes of this Act there is established an Authority to be known as the Protected Zone Joint Authority.

  (2)   The Protected Zone Joint Authority consists of:

  (a)   the Commonwealth Minister; and

  (b)   the Queensland Minister; and

  (c)   the Chairperson of the TSRA.

  (3)   The Protected Zone Joint Authority has such functions in relation to fisheries in respect of which arrangements are made under section   31 as are conferred on it by this Part and by the law of Queensland .

  (4)   The Commonwealth Minister may, by writing under his or her hand, appoint a person or persons to be his or her deputy or deputies.

  (5)   The Minister of the Crown of Queensland for the time being administering the laws of Queensland relating to marine fishing in the Protected Zone may, by writing under his or her hand, appoint a person or persons to be the deputy or deputies of the Queensland Minister.

  (5A)   The Chairperson of the TSRA may, by writing signed by him or her, appoint a person or persons to be his or her deputy or deputies.

  (5B)   An appointment made under subsection   ( 5A) by the person referred to in paragraph   ( a) of the definition of Chairperson of the TSRA in subsection   28(1) does not have any effect while a person is acting as Chairperson of the TSRA.

  (5C)   An appointment made under subsection   ( 5A) by a person who is acting as Chairperson of the TSRA only has effect when the person is so acting.

  (5D)   If, under subsection   ( 4), (5) or (5A), an instrument appoints 2 or more persons to be the deputies of a member of the Protected Zone Joint Authority, the instrument may specify conditions as to when a particular person or particular persons appointed are to perform the duties and functions and exercise the powers of the deputy of the member, including a condition that another person or other persons specified in the instrument are not available to perform those functions and duties and exercise those powers.

  (6)   A deputy of a member of the Protected Zone Joint Authority is entitled, in the absence from a meeting of the Protected Zone Joint Authority of the member and of the other deputy or deputies (if any) of the member, to attend that meeting and, when so attending, shall be deemed to be a member.

  (7)   All courts and persons acting judicially shall take judicial notice of the signature of a person who is or has been a member of the Protected Zone Joint Authority or a deputy of such a member and of the fact that he or she is, or was at a particular time, such a member or deputy.