Affixing of tags
29 Affixing of tags
Subject to subregulation (2), a person who is placing pearl oysters, other than pearl oysters being held on a nursery site, in a designated container shall, as soon as the designated container is full, affix a tag to the designated container by pulling the locking tail of the tag through the locking head of the tag.
Penalty: $2 000.
If there are insufficient pearl oysters with which to fill the last designated container in which pearl oysters are placed after the last dive of the day has been made, the person who is placing pearl oysters in that designated container shall affix a tag to that designated container in the manner specified in subregulation (1) as soon as the last pearl oyster has been placed in that designated container.
Penalty: $2 000.
Unless otherwise approved, a person shall not remove pearl oysters from a nursery site for the purpose of subjecting them to pearl seeding operations unless a tag has been affixed, in the manner described in subregulation (1), to the designated container in which those pearl oysters are being held.
Penalty: $2 000.
A person shall not affix a tag to a designated container if another tag is already affixed to the designated container.
Penalty: $2 000.
[Regulation 29 amended: Gazette 17 Dec 1999 p. 6210.]
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