FISHERIES MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1996 NO. 67 

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT) 1996 NO. 67 
- TABLE OF PROVISIONS

1.  Amendment  
2.  Regulation 19A (Regulation of longline fishing-section 14 of the Act)  
3.  Schedule 3D (Tori pole apparatus-construction and mounting)  


1996 No. 67 FISHERIES MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
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1. Amendment


  1.1 The Fisheries Management Regulations are amended as set out in these
Regulations.
(Note: These Regulations commence on gazettal: see Acts Interpretation Act
1901, s. 48.)


1996 No. 67 FISHERIES MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
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2. Regulation 19A (Regulation of longline fishing-section 14 of the Act)


  2.1 Omit the regulation, substitute:
Regulation of longline fishing-section 14 of the Act
  "19A. A person must not set a pelagic, or drifting, longline from:
  (a) an Australian boat; or
  (b) a foreign boat in the AFZ;
south of the parallel of Latitude 30 degrees South unless there is attached to
the boat, in relation to each point at which hooks, connected directly or
indirectly to the longline, enter the water:
  (c) a Tori Pole apparatus, in accordance with Schedule 3D; or
  (d) if the person is the holder of a scientific permit under section 33 of
the Act that permits the use, in that area, of another apparatus instead of a
Tori Pole apparatus-an apparatus that complies with the permit.
Maximum penalty: 10 penalty units.".


1996 No. 67 FISHERIES MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS (AMENDMENT)
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3. Schedule 3D (Tori pole apparatus-construction and mounting)


  3.1 Subparagraph 4 (d) (ii):
Omit the subparagraph, substitute:
  "(ii) each streamer in the streamer pair that is positioned the greatest
distance from the boat is:
      (A) if the boat is an Australian boat-at least 1 metre long; or
      (B) if the boat is a foreign boat-at least 3.5 metres long;
and".


- NOTES


1996 No. 67*1* FISHERIES MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS*2* (AMENDMENT)

- Dated 29 May 1996


*1* Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 30 May 1996.
*2* Statutory Rules 1992 No. 20 as amended by 1992 No. 455; 1993 Nos. 74, 118
and 296; 1994 Nos. 77, 125 and 419; 1995 Nos. 285 and 360.