Northern Territory Consolidated Acts

FISHERIES ACT - SECT 48

Regulations may be made under section 47 -

(a) providing for the issue, refusal, variation, suspension, sale, revocation (both with and without compensation), forfeiture, and renewal of licences to engage in aquaculture and for the conditions applicable to them including methods of farming or the restoration of Crown land;

(b) regulating the stocking of fish or aquatic life farms and regulating the taking of live fish or aquatic life for that purpose;

(c) providing for the Minister or Director to prescribe steps to be taken by any aquaculture licensee to keep the farm or premises free from disease, infection, contamination by sewage or other substance, and providing for the licensee to maintain the quality of water (including salinity) which must be used;

(d) regulating the removal and disposal of waste matter from any area used for aquaculture;

(e) regulating the types and quantities of food that may be fed;

(f) authorizing or requiring the taking of a specimen, the testing of anything, or the sampling of a substance present on any aquaculture premises and authorizing or requiring the removal of any specimen or sample, or the destruction of diseased fish or aquatic life whether with or without payment of compensation; and

(g) regulating or prohibiting the processing of any farmed fish or aquatic life or their sale or other disposal, or possession.