Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 26

26 .         Application of provisions relating to offences

                Provisions of this Act that relate to offences, enforcement and legal proceedings —

            (a)         apply in respect of anything done to, or in relation to, fish to which a Joint Authority fishery relates or otherwise in relation to a Joint Authority fishery; and

            (b)         for the purpose of paragraph (a) are to be read —

                  (i)         as if any reference in the provisions to an authorisation were a reference to an authorisation or an endorsement of an authorisation, as the case may be, granted, renewed or made by the relevant Joint Authority, in relation to the person alleged to have committed the offence or the boat alleged to have been used in the commission of the offence; and

                  (ii)         as if any reference in the provisions to fish were a reference to fish to which the Joint Authority fishery relates.