New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 115A

115A Annual contribution to industry costs

(1) A participant in a restricted fishery must, if the regulations so require, pay to the Minister an annual contribution towards one or more of the following:

(a) the costs of taking measures to enhance the effective management of commercial fishing,

(b) the costs of carrying out research into commercial fishing,

(c) the costs of management and administration of commercial fishing,

(d) the costs of ensuring compliance with commercial fishing regulatory controls,

(e) the costs of consultative arrangements with commercial fishers.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a "participant" in a restricted fishery means:

(a) a person who has an endorsement on his or her commercial fishing licence that authorises the person to take fish for sale in the restricted fishery, or

(b) the owner of a fishing business of which the endorsement is a component.

(3) The amount of the contribution is to be specified in or determined under the regulations.

(4) The regulations may provide for payment of the annual contribution by instalments.

(5) If a contribution, or an instalment of a contribution, is unpaid after the due date for its payment, the Minister may charge interest on the overdue amount at the rate payable from time to time in respect of judgments of the Supreme Court or, if some other rate is prescribed by the regulations, that rate.

(6) Interest may be charged for each day that has elapsed between the date on which payment is due and the date of payment.

(7) Interest charged on an overdue annual contribution, or instalment of a contribution, under subsection (5) is taken to be part of the contribution.