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Interference with fisheries signs and fishing boundary posts

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Part 6General restrictions and prohibitions relating to fishing, fishing equipment, fishing methods, boats and signage
Division 4Miscellaneous offences

156 Interference with fisheries signs and fishing boundary posts

(1)

A person must not remove, interfere with, damage or deface a fisheries sign.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2)

A person must not remove, interfere with, damage or deface a fishing boundary post erected for the purposes of the Act, regulations under the Act, a fisheries notice or an Order under the Act.

Penalty: 20 penalty units.

(3)

Subregulations (1) and (2) do not apply to a person who is authorised by the Victorian Fisheries Authority or the manager of the land where a fisheries sign or fishing boundary post is located to alter or remove a fisheries sign or fishing boundary post.

(4)

In this regulation—

fisheries sign includes a sign or notice—

(a)

erected or posted for the purposes of the Act, regulations under the Act, a fisheries notice or an Order under the Act that—

(i)

is identified as a notice of the Victorian Fisheries Authority; or

(ii)

contains information about compliance with a provision of the Act, any regulation under the Act, a fisheries notice or an Order under the Act; or

(b)

erected or posted as part of a response to a shark hazard that contains information about a shark hazard.

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