Western Australian Consolidated Acts

FISH RESOURCES MANAGEMENT ACT 1994 - SECT 92

92 .         Grant of aquaculture licence

        (1)         If a person applies to the CEO for the grant of an aquaculture licence and the CEO is satisfied that —

            (a)         the person is a fit and proper person to hold such a licence;

            (b)         it is in the better interests of the aquaculture industry to grant the licence;

            (c)         the activities to be conducted under the licence are unlikely to adversely affect other fish or the aquatic environment; and

            (d)         the activities to be conducted under the licence have been approved by other relevant authorities,

                the CEO may grant to the person an aquaculture licence.

        (2)         The licence may authorise the person, or persons acting on that person’s behalf, to engage in an activity referred to in section 90.

        (3)         The CEO may seek the advice of such authority or authorities as the CEO thinks fit in order to determine whether or not subsection (1)(c) is satisfied.

        (4)         An aquaculture licence must not be issued in relation to —

            (a)         an area of a marine nature reserve; or

            (b)         an area of a marine park from which aquaculture is excluded under section 13B of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 .

        (5)         An aquaculture licence must not be issued in relation to —

            (a)         an area of a marine park other than one from which aquaculture is excluded under section 13B of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 ; or

            (b)         an area of a marine management area,

                unless the Minister to whom the administration of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 is for the time being committed by the Governor approves the granting of the licence.

        (6)         Subsections (4) and (5) do not affect the validity of —

            (a)         a licence issued before the commencement of section 50 of the Acts Amendment (Marine Reserves) Act 1997 ¹ ; or

            (b)         a licence issued in relation to an area which is affected, after the issue of the licence, by a reservation under section 13 of the Conservation and Land Management Act 1984 , or by a notice under section 62 of that Act.

        [Section 92 amended by No. 5 of 1997 s. 50; No. 28 of 2006 s. 236(1).]