New South Wales Repealed Regulations

This legislation has been repealed.

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT (GENERAL) REGULATION 1995 - REG 229G

229G Advisory Council on Fisheries Conservation

(1) The Advisory Council on Fisheries Conservation is to be composed of the following members:

(a) 8 persons who, in the opinion of the Minister, have expertise in one or more of the following areas:

(i) fish habitat protection and rehabilitation,

(ii) biodiversity conservation,

(iii) marine protected areas,

(iv) threatened species conservation,

(v) aquatic vertebrates or invertebrates,

(vi) marine vegetation,

(vii) marine or freshwater ecology,

(viii) commercial fisheries,

(ix) recreational fisheries,

(x) aquaculture,

(b) 1 person appointed on the nomination of the Nature Conservation Council,

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

(d) such other persons as the Minister considers appropriate.

(2) The Minister may, by advertisement published in a newspaper circulating throughout the State, call for expressions of interest in membership of the Advisory Council on Fisheries Conservation.