New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (GENERAL) REGULATION 1995 - REG 226Z

226Z Advisory Committee

(1) The Minister may establish an advisory committee for the charter fishing industry, to be known as the Marine and Estuarine Recreational Charter Management Advisory Committee.

(2) The Advisory Committee is to be composed of the following members:

(a) 8 industry members, being persons who are elected by licence holders in accordance with Division 5 and appointed by the Minister,

(b) one person appointed by the Minister on the nomination of the Nature Conservation Council,

(c) other persons selected and appointed by the Minister,

(d) the Director or a nominee of the Director,

(e) a chairperson of the Committee, being a person who is neither engaged in the administration of the Act nor engaged in charter fishing.

(3) Of the members referred to in subclause (2) (c):

(a) one is to be a person who, in the opinion of the Minister, has expertise in commercial fishing, and

(b) one is to be a person who, in the opinion of the Minister, has expertise in Aboriginal culture, and

(c) one is to be a person who, in the opinion of the Minister, has expertise in recreational fishing.

(4) Subclause (3) does not prevent the Minister from selecting and appointing additional persons as members of the Advisory Committee.

(5) The chairperson of the Advisory Committee is entitled to attend and chair meetings of the Committee but is not entitled to vote at any such meeting.

(6) The Minister may, by advertisement published in a newspaper circulation throughout the State, call for expressions of interest in membership of the Advisory Committee.

(7) For the purpose of subclause (2) (b), the Minister is to request the Nature Conservation Council to nominate 2 candidates for appointment to the Advisory Committee.

(8) The Minister may decline to accept the nomination of any candidate. In such a case the Minister:

(a) is to advise the Nature Conservation Council of that decision and of the reason for that decision, and

(b) if the Minister considers it appropriate, is to give the Nature Conservation Council an opportunity to nominate another candidate.

(9) If the Nature Conservation Council fails to nominate a candidate within 60 days after being requested to do so by the Minister, or fails to nominate within that period a candidate whose nomination is accepted by the Minister, the Minister may appoint any person whom the Minister considers suitable to represent the interests of the Council as a member of the Advisory Committee, instead of a person nominated by the Council.