Interference with fisheries signs and fishing boundary posts
156 Interference with fisheries signs and fishing boundary posts
A person must not remove, interfere with, damage or deface a fisheries sign.
Penalty: 20 penalty units.
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.
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.
In this regulation—
fisheries sign includes a sign or notice—
erected or posted for the purposes of the Act, regulations under the Act, a fisheries notice or an Order under the Act that—
is identified as a notice of the Victorian Fisheries Authority; or
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
erected or posted as part of a response to a shark hazard that contains information about a shark hazard.
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