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Fisheries Act 1996

Quota management system - Deemed values

75B: Limitation period for challenges to deemed values

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"Challenging a deemed value decision must be done within 3 months."

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You can challenge a decision about deemed values in court, but you must do it within 3 months. The 3 months start from the date the decision is published in the Gazette. This rule applies even if other laws say something different.

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Deemed values

75BLimitation period for challenges to deemed values

  1. A court must not hear or determine, and no person may make or commence, an application or other proceeding in respect of a decision or purported decision of the Minister to set an interim deemed value rate or an annual deemed value rate unless the application is, or the proceedings are, made or commenced within 3 months after the date on which the decision, or purported decision, is notified in the Gazette.

  2. This section applies despite any other enactment or rule of law.

Notes
  • Section 75B: inserted, on , by section 26 of the Fisheries Act 1996 Amendment Act 1999 (1999 No 101).