Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations Commonwealth Consolidated Regulations(1) This regulation applies in relation to a decision by the Minister to accredit a management plan that applies to a fishery for the purposes of a declaration under section 33 of the Act.
(2) For paragraph 33 (3) (a) of the Act, the criteria that must be met by the management plan and the law under which it is in force, or is to be in force, are as follows:
(a) the law under which the management plan is in force, or is to be in force, must be the Fisheries Management Act 1991 or the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 ;
(b) the management plan must be endorsed by the Minister under an agreement made under section 146 of the Act;
(c) the management plan must be in the form in which it was endorsed.
(3) In this regulation:
"fishery" means a fishery to which the Fisheries Management Act 1991 or the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984 applies.
Note Under section 45 of the Act, the Minister may enter into a bilateral agreement with a State or self‑governing Territory in relation to 1 or more of the following:
* protecting the environment;
* promoting the conservation and ecologically sustainable use of natural resources;
* ensuring an efficient, timely and effective process for environmental assessment and approval of actions;
* minimising duplication in the environmental assessment and approval process through Commonwealth accreditation of the processes of the State or Territory (or vice versa).
Such an agreement may declare that actions in a specified class of actions approved in accordance with a management plan accredited in accordance with subsection 46 (3) of the Act do not require approval under Part 9 of the Act for the purposes of a specified provision of Part 3 (see the Act, subsection 46 (1)).