New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 187

187 Regulations relating to diseased fish and marine vegetation

(1) The regulations may make provision for or with respect to eliminating or preventing the spread of declared diseases.

(2) In particular, the regulations may make provision for or with respect to:

(a) the destruction or treatment of fish or marine vegetation that is, or is suspected of being, a declared disease or infected with a declared disease, and

(b) the examination, testing and treatment of fish or marine vegetation in a quarantine area, and

(c) the notification to the Minister or a fisheries officer of the presence or suspected presence of a declared disease or the infection or suspected infection with a declared disease of fish or marine vegetation in an area subject to an aquaculture permit, pet shop, aquarium or other place or in or on a boat.