301Regulations relating to freshwater fish farming

1. Without limiting the generality of section 297, the Governor-General may from time to time, by Order in Council, make regulations for all or any of the following purposes:

2. authorising persons, to be registered for the purpose, to construct and maintain ponds as fish farms for breeding and rearing fish (other than trout), aquatic life, or seaweed for sale subject to such conditions as are specified in the regulations:
3. regulating the operation of fish farms subject to such conditions as are specified in the regulations, and prohibiting the operation of any such fish farm, and the sale, disposal, transport, or export of any fish, aquatic life, or seaweed from such a fish farm without a licence:
4. providing for the registration of persons who may hold licences to operate fish farms and for the qualifications those persons are required to hold and the conditions with which they are required to comply before being granted registration and in order to remain registered:
5. providing for the appointment of officers, including any class of officers with specialist qualifications, to inspect such fish farms and ensure that any regulations made under this section are enforced, and for the inspection of any such fish farm or facilities for processing or storing any fish, aquatic life, or seaweed reared on the farm:
6. providing for the application for, issue, revocation, renewal, variation, and transfer of licences in respect of any such operation, and the form and contents of any such licence; and prescribing the fees payable in advance in respect of any such matter relating to any such licence and the fees payable annually or 6-monthly in advance for the continued validity of any such licence:
7. specifying the species, subspecies, varieties, or hybrids of fish, aquatic life, or seaweed that may be bred or reared in any such farm; and regulating the types and quantities of food that may be fed to any such fish, aquatic life, or seaweed, and the methods of feeding:
8. regulating or prohibiting the sale, possession, disposal, or processing of any such fish, aquatic life, or seaweed:
9. providing for the keeping by the licensee of any fish farm of records of fish, aquatic life, or seaweed acquired, kept, and disposed of, and for the keeping of records relating to those fish, aquatic life, or seaweed by any other licensee or other person:
10. prescribing the measures to be taken to avoid the outbreak, or on an outbreak, of any disease among the fish, aquatic life, or seaweed, and authorising or requiring the taking of any specimen, the testing of any thing, or the sampling of any substance present on any fish farm, and authorising or requiring the removal of any specimen or sample, or the destruction of diseased fish, aquatic life, or seaweed, whether with or without payment of compensation.

11. Regulations under this section are secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).