FISHERIES ACT 1995 - SECT 37 Offences relating to commercial abalone equipment

FISHERIES ACT 1995 - SECT 37

    (1)     A person must not—

        (a)     use commercial abalone equipment to take more than twice the catch limit for abalone; or

        (b)     possess commercial abalone equipment and more than twice the catch limit for abalone—

unless he or she is authorised to do so under this Act.

Penalty:     200 penalty units or 12 months imprisonment or both.

    (2)     A person may do any of the things referred to in subsection (1) if he or she—

        (a)     is acting on behalf of the holder of an access licence who is authorised to do that thing; and

        (b)     is authorised by that access licence to do that thing; and

        (c)     is not prohibited by this Act from so acting.

S. 38 substituted by No. 5/1997

s. 9.