New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 220I

220I How nominations made

(1) Any person may nominate an amendment of Schedule 4, 4A, 5 or 6.

(2) A nomination must be in writing addressed to the Chairperson of the Fisheries Scientific Committee and must include any information prescribed by the regulations.

(3) The Fisheries Scientific Committee may request a person who makes a nomination to provide additional information about the subject-matter of the nomination within a specified period.

(4) A person must not deliberately and wilfully make a vexatious nomination.

Maximum penalty (subsection (4)): 20 penalty units.

(5) The Fisheries Scientific Committee is to give notice of a nomination to the Minister and the NRC within 14 days after the nomination is made.