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FISHERIES ACT 1994 - SECT 138 Presumption about certain statements in arrangements

FISHERIES ACT 1994 - SECT 138

Presumption about certain statements in arrangements

138 Presumption about certain statements in arrangements

(1) A statement in a Commonwealth–State arrangement must be presumed to be correct if it is to the effect that—
(a) for an arrangement to which the Commonwealth and Queensland are the only parties—stated waters are waters relevant to Queensland; and
(b) in any other case—stated waters are waters adjacent to the States that are parties to the arrangement or are waters relevant to a stated State or States.
(2) A word or expression used in subsection (1) and the Commonwealth Fisheries Act has the same meaning in subsection (1) as it has in the Commonwealth Fisheries Act .