Fisheries Management Act 1994 No 38
Current version for 20 November 2012 to date (accessed 25 May 2013 at 15:44)
Part 3Division 2

Division 2 Declaration of share management fisheries

42   Declaration of share management fisheries

(1)  Schedule 1 specifies share management fisheries for the purposes of this Act.
(2)  The Governor may, by proclamation published on the NSW legislation website on the recommendation of the Minister, amend Schedule 1 by inserting or omitting the description of any fishery.
(3)  The Minister is required to recommend to the Governor that the description of a fishery be omitted from Schedule 1 if the management plan for the fishery has not commenced within 5 years after the description was inserted in Schedule 1.
Note. The first management plan for a fishery cannot be made until the completion of environmental assessment—see section 7G.

43   Consultation with industry

(1)  The Minister is required to consult relevant commercial fishing industry bodies about which fisheries should become share management fisheries.
(2)  The Minister is also required to consult relevant commercial fishing industry bodies before a fishery ceases to be a share management fishery.

44   Omission of share management fishery

(1)  This section has effect if the description of a share management fishery is omitted from Schedule 1, including an omission for the purpose of redefining an existing share management fishery.
(2)  When the description of the fishery is omitted, all shares in the fishery are cancelled.
(3)  If the description of the fishery is omitted after the commencement of the management plan for the fishery, the holders of the cancelled shares are entitled to compensation from the State for the market value before the cancellation of the shares they held.
(4)  The amount of compensation payable is to be determined by agreement between the Minister and the person entitled to compensation. If the amount of compensation is not agreed, it is to be determined by the Valuer-General.
(5)  A person entitled to compensation may agree to accept instead shares in another share management fishery which replaces the omitted fishery wholly or partly.
(6)  A person who is dissatisfied with the amount of compensation offered to the person under this section or with any delay in the payment of compensation may appeal to the Land and Environment Court.
(7)  The regulations may make provision for or with respect to the payment of compensation in accordance with this section.
(8)  This section does not apply:
(a)  if a description of a fishery is omitted from Part 2 of Schedule 1 after the fishery is terminated in accordance with Division 2A, or
(b)  if a description of a fishery is omitted from Part 2 of Schedule 1 and inserted in Part 1 of Schedule 1 (that is, the fishery is converted in accordance with Division 2A).

45   Redefinition of share management fishery

(1)  This Part applies to the redefinition of an existing share management fishery by the replacement, wholly or partly, of the description of that fishery in Schedule 1, subject to any modifications of this Part prescribed by the regulations.
(2)  The regulations may, in particular, combine any of the stages of implementation of the new share management fishery.
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