Fisheries

No. 150 of 1968

An Act to amend section 4 of the Fisheries Act 1952–1967.

[Assented to 9 December 1968]

BE it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, the Senate, and the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Australia, as follows:—

Short title and citation.

1.—(1.) This Act may be cited as the Fisheries Act 1968.

(2.) The Fisheries Act 1952–1967 is in this Act referred to as the Principal Act.

(3.) The Principal Act, as amended by this Act, may be cited as the Fisheries Act 1952–1968.

Commencement.

2.—(1.) Subject to the next succeeding sub-section, this Act shall come into operation on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

(2.) Sub-section (1.) of section 3 of this Act shall come into operation on the date on which the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act 1968 comes into operation.

Definitions.

3.—(1.) Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting the definition of “fish” and inserting in its stead the following definition:—

“‘fish’ includes—

(a) turtles;

(b) dugong; and

(c) subject to paragraph (e) of this definition, crustacea and molluscs,

but does not include—

(d) any species of whales; or

(e) any organism that is a sedentary organism for the purposes of the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act 1968;”.

(2.) Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from the definition of “the Minister” the words “Commonwealth, includes the Minister of State for Territories;” and inserting in their stead the words “Commonwealth (other than the Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands), includes the Minister of State for External Territories;”.