FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 58

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 58

58 .         Management plan may provide for authorisations etc.

        (1)         Without limiting section 56(3), a management plan may prohibit a person from engaging in fishing or any fishing activity of a specified class in the fishery or any part of the fishery otherwise than in accordance with an authorisation.

        (2)         The management plan may —

            (a)         provide for different classes of authorisations;

            (b)         restrict the number of authorisations that can be granted or provide that no further authorisations can be granted;

            (c)         specify criteria to be satisfied before the CEO can grant an authorisation;

            (d)         specify a procedure for determining which persons are to be granted authorisations if the number of eligible persons seeking an authorisation exceeds the number of authorisations that can be granted;

            (e)         provide for the submission and consideration of objections to the grant of authorisations;

            (f)         provide for specified things to be endorsed on authorisations;

            (g)         specify conditions to which authorisations are subject;

            (h)         specify grounds on which the CEO may cancel, suspend or refuse to renew an authorisation (in addition to those already specified in section 143(1)(a) to (g));

                  (i)         specify a period for which an authorisation remains in force after it has been granted or renewed;

            (j)         specify criteria to be satisfied before the CEO can vary an authorisation on the application of the holder of the authorisation;

            (k)         specify grounds on which the CEO may refuse to transfer under section 140 an authorisation or any part of an entitlement under an authorisation;

            (l)         prescribe fees payable in respect of applications for —

                  (i)         the grant, renewal and variation of authorisations; or

                  (ii)         the transfer of authorisations or entitlements under authorisations;

            (m)         prescribe fees payable for the issue of authorisations.

        (3)         A fee prescribed under subsection (2)(m) may include one or more of the following —

            (a)         an amount in respect of the extent or value of any authority conferred by an authorisation;

            (b)         an amount in connection with any purpose referred to in section 238(5) that is relevant to an authorisation;

            (c)         an amount in respect of the costs of administering this Act.

        (4)         To the extent that a management plan prescribes under subsection (2)(m) a fee that includes an amount referred to in subsection (3) that is a tax, the management plan may impose the tax.

        [Section 58 amended: No. 28 of 2006 s. 236(1); No. 21 of 2011 s. 4; No. 22 of 2011 s. 4; No. 43 of 2011 s. 18.]