Fisheries (Validation of Plans of Management) Act 2004

No. 158, 2004

An Act to provide certainty about the validity of certain plans of management under the Fisheries Management Act 1991, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Plans of management

Fisheries (Validation of Plans of Management) Act 2004

No. 158, 2004

An Act to provide certainty about the validity of certain plans of management under the Fisheries Management Act 1991, and for related purposes

[Assented to 17 December 2004]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act may be cited as the Fisheries (Validation of Plans of Management) Act 2004.

2  Commencement

  This Act commences on the day on which it receives the Royal Assent.

3  Plans of management

 (1) The purpose of this section is to provide certainty about the validity of:

 (a) certain plans of management determined under the Fisheries Management Act 1991; and

 (b) things done under or for the purposes of those plans.

 (2) A plan of management determined, or purported to have been determined, by the Managing Director, or acting Managing Director, of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority under section 17 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 before the commencement of this section has effect, and is taken always to have had effect, as if it had been determined by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.

 (3) Any amendment or revocation of such a plan made by the Managing Director, or acting Managing Director, of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority under section 20 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991 before the commencement of this section has effect, and is taken always to have had effect, as if it had been made by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.

 (4) Anything done under or for the purposes of such a plan of management, or such a plan of management amended as mentioned in subsection (3), is as valid, and is taken always to have been as valid, as it would have been if the plan had been determined, and the amendment had been made, by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

Senate on 17 November 2004

House of Representatives on 8 December 2004]