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Fisheries Act 1996

Repeals, amendments, validations, savings, and transitional provisions - Savings and transitional provisions

369L: Change to fishing year for ANG13

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"The Governor-General can change the fishing year for freshwater eels in a certain area."

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The Governor-General can change the fishing year for freshwater eel in quota management area ANG13. You can have a 12-month fishing year starting on 1 February. The Governor-General must make this change by Order in Council. The new fishing year cannot start before 1 February 2002. The Governor-General cannot make this change in the 4 months before the new fishing year starts. An order to change the fishing year is secondary legislation, which has its own publication requirements, as outlined in Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019.

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Part 17Repeals, amendments, validations, savings, and transitional provisions
Savings and transitional provisions

369LChange to fishing year for ANG13

  1. Despite section 369I(4), the Governor-General may, by Order in Council, specify a period of 12 months commencing on each 1 February to be the fishing year for freshwater eel in quota management area ANG13.

  2. No order under subsection (1) may—

  3. provide for the proposed new fishing year to start before 1 February 2002; or
    1. be made during the period of 4 months immediately preceding the start of the proposed new fishing year.

      1. An order under this section is secondary legislation (see Part 3 of the Legislation Act 2019 for publication requirements).

      Notes
      • Section 369L: inserted, on , by section 16 of the Fisheries Amendment Act 2000 (2000 No 20).
      • Section 369L(3): inserted, on , by section 3 of the Secondary Legislation Act 2021 (2021 No 7).
      • Section 369L(3): expired, on , by section 369M.