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s 70D

Amendments to management plans

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Part 6Fisheries arrangements
Division 2Arrangements with respect to the management of fisheries
Subdivision 2Joint Authority fishery management plans

70D Amendments to management plans

(1) If a Joint Authority is of the opinion that an amendment to a management plan that it has made is required, the Joint Authority may:

(a) if the proposed amendment is, in the Joint Authority's opinion, a minor amendment – approve the amendment; or

(b) if the proposed amendment is not, in the Joint Authority's opinion, a minor amendment – give notice of the proposed amendment to the plan, and the place or places where a copy of it may be inspected, in:

(i)

the Gazette; or

(ii)

a newspaper circulating throughout the Territory.

(2) There may be included with a proposed amendment under subsection (1) any explanatory notes that the Joint Authority thinks fit, but those notes do not form part of the proposed amendment or an amendment to the plan.

(3) Not less than 1 month after the date of notification under subsection (1)(b), and after considering any submissions made in respect of the proposed amendment, the Joint Authority may:

(a) make any amendments to the proposed amendment that the Joint Authority thinks fit; and

(b) approve the amendment, after advising the relevant advisory committee of any amendments and the reasons for them.

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