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Fishing Levy Amendment (20232024 Levy Amounts) Regulations 2023

I, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), GovernorGeneral of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, make the following regulations.

Dated 13 December 2023

David Hurley

GovernorGeneral

By His Excellency’s Command

Murray Watt

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

 

 

 

 

 

Contents

1 Name

2 Commencement

3 Authority

4 Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments

Fishing Levy Regulations 2018

1  Name

  This instrument is the Fishing Levy Amendment (2023-2024 Levy Amounts) Regulations 2023.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

The day after this instrument is registered.

16 December 2023

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under the Fishing Levy Act 1991.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.

Schedule 1Amendments

 

Fishing Levy Regulations 2018

1  Subsection 5(1) (definition of new levy day)

Omit “Fishing Levy Amendment (20222023 Levy Amounts) Regulations 2022”, substitute “Fishing Levy Amendment (20232024 Levy Amounts) Regulations 2023”.

2  Subsection 8(2)

Omit “$0.9093”, substitute “$0.9191”.

3  Paragraph 9(2)(a)

Omit “$1,576.67”, substitute “$923.97”.

4  Subsection 9(2) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

Amount of levy for a sector of the Coral Sea Fishery

Item

Sector

Amount ($)

1

Aquarium

976.44

2

Line

3,905.75

3

Line—autobait

3,905.75

4

Lobster and trochus

976.44

5

Sea cucumber

976.44

5  Subsection 10(2)

Omit “$1,215.10”, substitute “$1,029.90”.

6  Subsection 11(2) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

Amount of levy—Eastern Tuna and Billfish Fishery

Item

SFR

Amount ($)

1

Leviable ETBF Albacore Tuna SFR

0.1156

2

Leviable ETBF Bigeye Tuna SFR

0.1006

3

Leviable ETBF Broadbill Swordfish SFR

0.1852

4

Leviable ETBF longline boat SFR

4,279.51

5

Leviable ETBF minor line boat SFR

2,193.30

6

Leviable ETBF Striped Marlin SFR

0.0282

7

Leviable ETBF Yellowfin Tuna SFR

0.5716

7  Subsection 12(2)

Omit “$27.6951”, substitute “$27.364”.

8  Subsection 13(2)

Omit “$16.1123”, substitute “$15.61”.

9  Subsection 14(2)

Omit “$55.97”, substitute “$70.99”.

10  Subsection 15(2)

Omit “$11,432.29”, substitute “$15,848.43”.

11  Subsection 16(2) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

Amount of levy—Small Pelagic Fishery

Item

SFR

Amount ($)

1

Leviable SPF Australian Sardine quota SFR

0.007484

2

Leviable SPF Eastern subarea Blue Mackerel quota SFR

0.016303

3

Leviable SPF Eastern subarea Jack Mackerel quota SFR

0.044739

4

Leviable SPF Eastern subarea Redbait quota SFR

0.007484

5

Leviable SPF Western subarea Blue Mackerel quota SFR

0.016303

6

Leviable SPF Western subarea Jack Mackerel quota SFR

0.007484

7

Leviable SPF Western subarea Redbait quota SFR

0.007484

12  Subsection 17(2) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

Amount of levy—Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery—SFRs (other than quota SFRs)

Item

SFR

Amount ($)

1

Leviable SESSF GAB trawl boat SFR

42,708.04

2

Leviable SESSF gillnet boat SFR

5,840.32

3

Leviable SESSF scalefish hook boat SFR

2,546.26

4

Leviable SESSF shark hook boat SFR

4,176.86

5

Leviable SESSF trawl boat SFR

8,812.44

13  Subsection 17(3) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

Amount of levy—Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery—quota SFRs

Item

Quota species

Amount ($)

1

Alfonsino

0.00148

2

Bight redfish

0.00580

3

Blue eye trevalla

0.17189

4

Blue grenadier

0.28626

5

Blue warehou

0.00006

6

Deepwater flathead

0.00613

7

Elephantfish

0.11088

8

Flathead

0.00035

9

Gummy shark

0.44666

10

Jackass morwong

0.00053

11

John dory

0.00098

12

Mirror dory

0

13

Ocean perch

0.03146

14

Oreodory

0.00762

15

Pink ling

0.19807

16

Redfish

0.00003

17

Ribaldo

0.03292

18

Royal red prawn

0

19

Saw shark

0.10156

20

School shark

0.31927

21

School whiting

0

22

Silver trevally

0.00020

23

Silver warehou

0.00005

14  Subsection 17(4) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

Amount of levy—Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery—quota SFRs for species in particular sectors or zones

Item

Quota species

Sector or zone

Amount ($)

1

Deepwater shark

Eastern

0.01908

2

Deepwater shark

Western

0.02866

3

Gemfish

Eastern

0.06902

4

Gemfish

Western

0.00341

5

Orange roughy

Albany and Esperance

0.00205

6

Orange roughy

Cascade Plateau

0.01421

7

Orange roughy

Eastern

0.03088

8

Orange roughy

Southern

0.00226

9

Orange roughy

Western

0.00130

10

Smooth oreodory

Cascade Plateau

0.00069

11

Smooth oreodory

A sector or zone other than the Cascade Plateau

0.00813

15  Subsection 18(2) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

Amount of levy—Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery—fishing permits (other than leviable SESSF quota fishing permits)

Item

Fishing permit

Amount ($)

1

Leviable SESSF autolongline fishing permit

3,961.61

2

Leviable SESSF ECDT fishing permit

572.67

3

Leviable SESSF GHT fishing permit

2,373.65

4

Leviable SESSF GHT trap fishing permit

21,750.63

5

Leviable SESSF VCW fishing permit

736.29

16  Subsection 18(3) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

Amount of levy—Southern and Eastern Scalefish and Shark Fishery—leviable SESSF quota fishing permits

Item

Quota species

Amount ($)

1

Deepwater shark in the Eastern zone

0.05724

2

Deepwater shark in the Western zone

0.08598

3

Oreodory

0.02285

4

Ribaldo

0.09877

5

Smooth oreodory in the Cascade Plateau zone

0.00206

6

Smooth oreodory in a sector or zone other than the Cascade Plateau zone

0.02438

17  Paragraphs 18(4)(a) and (b)

Omit “2023”, substitute “2024”.

18  Subsection 19(2)

Omit “$0.2772”, substitute “$0.3052”.

19  Subsection 20(2)

Omit “$31.203”, substitute “$52.823”.

20  Subsection 21(2)

Omit “$5,267.64”, substitute “$7,932.36”.

21  Subsection 22(2)

Omit “$1,215.10”, substitute “$1,029.90”.

22  Subsection 23(2) (table)

Repeal the table, substitute:

 

Amount of levy—Western Tuna and Billfish Fishery

Item

SFR

Amount ($)

1

Leviable WTBF Bigeye Tuna quota SFR

0.0426

2

Leviable WTBF boat SFR

1,052.72

3

Leviable WTBF Broadbill Swordfish quota SFR

0.0426

4

Leviable WTBF Striped Marlin quota SFR

0.0426

5

Leviable WTBF Yellowfin Tuna quota SFR

0.0426