Lavender v Director of Fisheries Compliance, Department of Industry Skills and Regional Development

• 1. Constitutional Law (Cth)
  2. › Legislative powers
  3. › Extraterritorial operation of State legislation
  4. › State power to legislate with respect to fisheries in territorial sea
  5. › Whether Commonwealth has exclusive legislative power over territorial sea
  6. › Whether sufficient nexus with State
  7. › Constitution, s 51; Australia Act 1986 (Cth), s 2(1)
• 1. Constitutional Law (Cth)
  2. › Operation and effect of Commonwealth Constitution
  3. › Inconsistency of laws
  4. › Whether State fisheries legislation inconsistent with Commonwealth legislation
  5. › Constitution, s 109
  6. › Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 (Cth), s 16
• 1. Constitutional Law (Cth)
  2. › Operation and effect of Commonwealth Constitution
  3. › Alteration of limits of States
  4. › Whether Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980 (Cth) and Coastal Waters (State Title) Act 1980 (Cth) alter limits of State
  5. › Whether vesting of title to seabed extends State territory
  6. › Constitution, s 123
• 1. Constitutional Law (Cth)
  2. › Fisheries
  3. › Regulation of abalone fishery
  4. › Whether abalone as sedentary organisms are minerals forming part of seabed
  5. › Whether regulation of abalone fishery requires title to seabed
  6. › Fisheries Management Act 1994 (NSW), ss 7, 135, 136
  7. › Fisheries Management (Abalone Share Management Plan) Regulation 2000 (NSW)

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