Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 33

33 .         Recreational Fishing Advisory Committee

        (1)         An Advisory Committee to be known as the Recreational Fishing Advisory Committee (in this Division referred to as the Advisory Committee ) is to be established.

        (2)         The Advisory Committee is to consist of 15 persons of whom —

            (a)         one is to be the CEO ex officio or an officer of the Department nominated by the CEO to act in his or her place;

            (b)         6 are to be persons appointed by the Minister in accordance with the prescribed procedure who represent regional recreational fishing interests;

            (c)         one is to be a person appointed by the Minister who in the Minister’s opinion represents the recreational fishing media;

            (ca)         one is to be a person appointed by the Minister who in the Minister’s opinion represents interests involved in fishing tours, aquatic eco-tourism and charter boats used for recreational fishing;

            (d)         one is to be a person appointed by the Minister who in the Minister’s opinion represents the fishing tackle industry;

            (e)         one is to be a person appointed by the Minister on the nomination of the body known as the Western Australian Recreational and Sportfishing Council;

            (f)         one is to be a person appointed by the Minister on the nomination of the peak industry body;

            (g)         one is to be a person appointed by the Minister who in the Minister’s opinion represents the interests of the community;

            (h)         one is to be a person appointed by the Minister who has an interest in recreational fishing issues but who in the Minister’s opinion is independent of the Department and has no commercial interest in recreational fishing; and

                  (i)         one is to be an Aboriginal person, appointed by the Minister who in the Minister’s opinion represents the interests of Aboriginal people.

        (3)         If within 30 days of being requested in writing by the Minister to do so, a body referred to in subsection (2)(e) or (f) has not made any nomination for appointment required to be made by the body under that paragraph, the Minister may make the appointment at his or her discretion.

        (4)         A person appointed under subsection (3) is to be taken to have been nominated under the relevant paragraph referred to in that subsection.

        [Section 33 amended by No. 41 of 2000 s. 6; No. 74 of 2003 s. 56(3); No. 28 of 2006 s. 236(1).]