Notification of entanglement or confinement of protected animals
27 Notification of entanglement or confinement of protected animals
Subject to subregulation (2), if a protected animal becomes entangled or otherwise confined in a farming structure or other equipment used in connection with aquaculture carried on by a licensee, the licensee must take the following action:
the licensee must, immediately after becoming aware of the entanglement or confinement, notify the Minister, by telephone call to the number provided to the licensee for the purpose, of so many of the prescribed details in relation to the entanglement or confinement as are known at the time of the notification;
the licensee must, within 2 days after becoming aware of the entanglement or confinement, give the Minister written notice of the prescribed details in relation to the entanglement or confinement. Maximum penalty: Maximum penalty: $7 500. Expiation fee: In the case of an offence against paragraph (b)—$500.
A licensee is not required to comply with subregulation (1) if the licensee's aquaculture strategy specifies that this regulation does not apply.
In this regulation—
prescribed details, in relation to the entanglement or confinement of an animal, means the following:
the species of animal;
the expected period of entanglement or confinement;
the condition of the animal (to the extent known or reasonably ascertainable);
details of the circumstances in which the entanglement took place;
any action taken to free the animal and the outcome of that action;
protected animal means—
a protected animal within the meaning of the
National Parks and Wildlife
Act 1972; or
a white shark (Carcharodon carcharias).
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