Fisheries (Southland and Sub-Antarctic Areas Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations 1997
Fisheries (Southland and Sub-Antarctic Areas Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations 1997
Fisheries (Southland and Sub-Antarctic Areas Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations 1997
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Fisheries (Southland and Sub-Antarctic Areas Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations 1997
Note
These regulations are administered in the Ministry of Fisheries.
PURSUANT to section 89 of the Fisheries Act 1983, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.
1 Title and commencement
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(1) These regulations may be cited as the Fisheries (Southland and Sub-Antarctic Areas Commercial Fishing) Amendment Regulations 1997, and are part of the Fisheries (Southland and Sub-Antarctic Areas Commercial Fishing) Regulations 19861 (
“the principal regulations”
).(2) These regulations come into force on 1 June 1997.
2 Oyster season and quotas
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(1) The principal regulations are amended by revoking regulation 7 (as substituted by regulation 2 of the Fisheries (Southland and Sub-Antarctic Areas Commercial Fishing) Regulations 1986, Amendment No 22).
(2) The Fisheries (Southland and Sub-Antarctic Areas Commercial Fishing) Regulations 1986, Amendment No 22 (SR 1996/81) are consequentially revoked.
DIANE WILDERSPIN,
Acting 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 revoke regulation 7 of the Fisheries (Southland and Sub-Antarctic Areas Commercial Fishing) Regulations 1986, which imposes restrictions on the Foveaux Strait dredge oyster fishery. The restrictions are no longer needed after 1 June 1997, when the oysters come under an individual quota management regime (see the Fisheries (1997 Foveaux Strait Dredge Oyster Quota) Regulations 1997).
Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.
Date of notification in Gazette: 1 May 1997.
1 SR 1986/220