Fisheries (Challenger Area Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations 2010
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Fisheries (Challenger Area Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations 2010
Anand Satyanand, Governor-General
Order in Council
At Wellington this 15th day of November 2010
Present:
His Excellency the Governor-General in Council
Pursuant to section 297 of the Fisheries Act 1996, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.
Regulations
1 Title
These regulations are the Fisheries (Challenger Area Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations 2010.
2 Commencement
These regulations come into force on 16 December 2010.
3 Principal regulations amended
These regulations amend the Fisheries (Challenger Area Commercial Fishing) Regulations 1986.
4 Regulation 11 revoked
Regulation 11 is revoked.
5 Offences
Regulation 15(1) is amended by omitting
“11,”
.
Michael Webster,
for Clerk of the Executive Council.
Explanatory note
This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.
These regulations, which come into force on 16 December 2010, amend the Fisheries (Challenger Area Commercial Fishing) Regulations 1986.
The amendments—
revoke regulation 11, which provides that when more than 100 tonnes of snapper have been taken from an area in Tasman Bay and Golden Bay during the period between October and February in the following year, the chief executive of the Ministry of Fisheries is required to close that area to the taking, by commercial fishers, of any fish by pair trawling or Danish seining or of any snapper using a surrounding net that is not a drag net:
consequentially omit reference to regulation 11 from regulation 15(1), which prescribes offences for breaches of various provisions of the regulations.
Date of notification in Gazette: 18 November 2010.
These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Fisheries.