FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 221ZB Functions of Fisheries Scientific Committee

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 221ZB

221ZB Functions of Fisheries Scientific Committee

(1) The Fisheries Scientific Committee has the functions conferred or imposed on it by or under this or any other Act or law.

(2) The principal functions of the Fisheries Scientific Committee are as follows--

(a) the functions relating to the listing of species, populations, ecological communities of fish and marine vegetation and key threatening processes as are conferred on it by this Act,

(b) to advise the Minister on the identification of critical habitat of endangered or critically endangered species, populations or ecological communities,

(c) to review draft joint management agreements and the performance of parties under executed joint management agreements,

(d) to advise the Secretary on the exercise of the Secretary's functions under this Part,

(e) to advise the Minister and the NRC on any matter relating to the conservation of threatened species, populations or ecological communities that is referred to the Committee by the Minister or that the Committee considers appropriate.

(3) The Fisheries Scientific Committee may, in the exercise of its functions, make use of consultants or obtain assistance or advice from other persons.

(4) The Fisheries Scientific Committee and the Scientific Committee under the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 are required to consult each other on matters that affect the exercise of their respective functions.