FISHERIES AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 99 of 1978 - SECT 3 Interpretation

FISHERIES AMENDMENT ACT 1978 No. 99 of 1978 - SECT 3

3. Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended-

(a) by inserting after the definition of ''Australian boat'' the following
definition:

'' 'Australian fishing zone' means-

   (a)  the waters adjacent to Australia and having as their inner limits the
        baselines by reference to which the territorial limits of Australia
        are defined for the purposes of international law and as their outer
        limits lines seaward from those inner limits every point on each of
        which is distant 200 international nautical miles from the point on
        one of those baselines that is nearest to the first-mentioned point;
        and

   (b)  the waters adjacent to each external Territory and having as their
        inner limits the baselines by reference to which the territorial
        limits of that Territory are defined for the purposes of international
        law and as their outer limits lines seaward from those inner limits
        every point on each of which is distant 200 international nautical
        miles from the point on one of those baselines that is nearest to the
        first-mentioned point,

but does not include-

   (c)  waters that are not proclaimed waters;

   (d)  waters that are excepted waters; or

   (e)  waters that are described in an agreement in force between Australia
        and another country as waters that are not to be taken, for the
        purposes of this Act, to be within the Australian fishing zone;'';

   (b)  by inserting after the definition of ''Department'' the following
        definition:

'' 'excepted waters' means proclaimed waters specified by Proclamation in
force under section 7A;'';

   (c)  by inserting after the definition of ''foreign boat'' the following
        definition:

'' 'master', in relation to a boat, means the master or other person in charge
of the boat;'';

   (d)  by omitting ''Australia'' (wherever occurring) from the definition of
        ''officer'' and substituting ''the Commonwealth'';

   (e)  by omitting ''to the Department'' (wherever occurring) from the
        definition of ''officer''; and

   (f)  by omitting the definition of ''the declared fishing zone''.