Regulation-making power
223 Regulation-making power
The Governor in Council may make regulations under this Act.
A regulation may—
prescribe matters for the management of any of the following—
a fishery;
a fish habitat;
a declared fish habitat area;
a fish way;
fisheries resources;
aquaculture; or
provide for the protection of things that are not fish; or
Example for paragraph (b)—
A regulation may regulate taking or possessing fish in an area to protect dugong in the area.
prescribe the fees payable under this Act; or
state, for the Planning Act, the types of development applications, and change applications, relating to fisheries development that is building work that do not require referral to a referral agency under that Act; or
create offences and prescribe penalties of not more than 100 penalty units for each offence; or
prescribe circumstances in which an act or omission that is otherwise an offence under this Act is not an offence.
In this section—
change application—
means a change application under the Planning Act; but
does not include a change application for a minor change to a development approval, as defined in that Act.
This provision refers to the regulations (may make regulations
, A regulation
). Made under this Act:
- Fisheries (Commercial Fisheries) Regulation 2019
- Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019
- Fisheries Declaration 2019 · Regulation
1 more instrument made under this Act are listed on the Act’s overview.
This Act’s bill:Explanatory memorandum
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