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FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 257

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 257

257 .         Regulations about licensing

        (1)         The regulations may provide for the licensing of any of the following —

            (a)         persons engaged in commercial fishing;

            (ba)         Aboriginal bodies corporate engaged in commercial fishing, but a licence granted or renewed under this provision cannot be transferred despite any other provision of this Act;

            (bb)         masters of boats used for purposes relating to commercial fishing;

            (bc)         persons engaged in diving for purposes relating to commercial fishing, aquaculture or aquatic eco-tourism;

            (bd)         persons collecting fish (including protected fish) for broodstock and other aquaculture purposes;

            (b)         individuals engaged in recreational fishing;

            (ca)         boats (including foreign boats) used for purposes relating to recreational fishing;

            (cb)         persons engaged in specified activities in a fish habitat protection area;

            (c)         fishing boats;

            (d)         boats used for transporting or trans-shipping fish for a commercial purpose;

            (e)         boats used in connection with aquaculture;

            (f)         charter boats;

            (g)         persons engaged in aquatic eco-tourism or the provision of fishing tours for a commercial purpose;

            (h)         persons engaged in selling specified classes of fish that have been produced by means of aquaculture;

                  (i)         persons engaged in the possession, unloading, transport, consignment, handling, labelling, delivery, receival, storage, packaging, purchase or sale of fish.

        (2)         For the purpose of giving effect to subsection (1), the regulations may do any of the following —

            (a)         prohibit a person from operating or using a boat, or engaging in an activity, referred to in subsection (1) unless the person is authorised to do so by a specified licence;

            (b)         authorise the CEO to grant licences authorising persons to operate or use boats, or to engage in activities, referred to in subsection (1);

            (c)         specify the criteria to be applied by the CEO in determining whether or not to grant such licences;

            (d)         provide, subject to sections 136A and 143, for the renewal of such licences;

            (e)         authorise conditions to be specified on licences by the CEO or prescribed by the regulations and provide for conditions specified on a licence to be deleted, varied or added to;

            (f)         prohibit a person from contravening a condition of a licence;

            (g)         specify the duration of licences and any other matter relating to the licences;

            (h)         prohibit a person who has been convicted of a prescribed offence from being on any boat in a prescribed class of boats for a prescribed period after the conviction unless the person holds a prescribed authorisation and the authority conferred by the authorisation is in effect.

        [Section 257 amended: No. 5 of 1997 s. 59; No. 41 of 2000 s. 10; No. 28 of 2006 s. 236(1); No. 43 of 2011 s. 73.]