Requirement for licence
10 Requirement for licence
(1) A licence may authorise a person to do one or more of the following things:
take fish or aquatic life:
for sale; or
for the purpose of aquaculture; or
for the purpose of exhibiting them for profit;
undertake aquaculture;
sell live fish or aquatic life;
process for sale or sell dead fish or aquatic life;
exhibit fish or aquatic life for profit;
(f) any other thing prescribed by regulation or a management plan as being able to be done only under a licence.
A person commits an offence if the person:
(a) takes fish or aquatic life with the intention of using it for a purpose mentioned in subsection (1)(a); and
(b) is not authorised by a licence to take the fish or aquatic life for that purpose.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.
A person commits an offence if the person:
intentionally undertakes aquaculture; and
is not authorised by a licence to do so.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.
A person commits an offence if:
the person intentionally sells a thing; and
(b) the thing is live fish or aquatic life and the person is reckless in relation to that circumstance; and
the person is not authorised by a licence to sell the thing.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.
A person commits an offence if:
the person intentionally processes for sale or sells a thing; and
(b) the thing is dead fish or aquatic life and the person is reckless in relation to that circumstance; and
(c) the person is not authorised by a licence to process for sale or sell the thing.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.
A person commits an offence if:
the person intentionally exhibits a thing for profit; and
(b) the thing is fish or aquatic life and the person is reckless in relation to that circumstance; and
(c) the person is not authorised by a licence to exhibit the fish or aquatic life for profit.
Maximum penalty: 200 penalty units or imprisonment for 2 years.
A person commits an offence if:
the person intentionally engages in conduct; and
(b) the conduct is prescribed by regulation or a management plan as being able to be done only under a licence and the person is reckless in relation to that circumstance; and
(c) the person is not authorised by a licence to engage in the conduct.
Maximum penalty: 100 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months.
(8) Strict liability applies to subsections (2)(b), (3)(b), (4)(c), (5)(c), (6)(c) and (7)(c).
(9) This section does not apply to a person who does a thing of a kind prescribed by a regulation or management plan for this subsection.
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