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EAST POINT AQUATIC LIFE RESERVE MANAGEMENT PLAN 1993

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This management plan sets the legal fishing rules that apply inside the East Point Aquatic Life Reserve. It permits only amateur fishing, bans taking fish for sale, restricts gear to rod-and-line or handline, requires immediate release of fish under 30 cm, and forbids taking or damaging sedentary organisms. It applies to anyone fishing in the declared Reserve and matters because it prescribes permitted behaviour and creates compliance and enforcement obligations for fishers and regulators.

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EAST POINT AQUATIC LIFE RESERVE MANAGEMENT PLAN 1993

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA EAST POINT AQUATIC LIFE RESERVE MANAGEMENT PLAN 1993 As in force at 1 February 1993 Table of provisions 1 Citation ............................................................................................ 1 2 Commencement .............................................................................. 1 3 Application ....................................................................................... 1 4 Interpretation ................................................................................... 1 5 Amateur fishing permitted ................................................................ 1 6 Gear which may be used ................................................................. 1 7 Undersize fish not to be taken ......................................................... 2 ENDNOTES

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

As in force at 1 February 1993.

EAST POINT AQUATIC LIFE RESERVE MANAGEMENT PLAN 1993 Plan under the Fisheries Act 1988 1 Citation This Plan may be cited as the East Point Aquatic Life Reserve Management Plan 1993. 2 Commencement This Plan shall take effect from 1 February 1993. 3 Application This Plan applies to the fishery management area known as East Point Aquatic Life Reserve declared by notice in Gazette No. S51 published on 8 October 1992. 4 Interpretation In this Plan, unless the contrary intention appears: Reserve means the fishery management area to which this Plan applies. sedentary organism means a sedentary organism within the meaning of the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act 1968 of the Commonwealth, and includes part of a sedentary organism and a sedentary organism that is dead. 5 Amateur fishing permitted (1) A person may, subject to this Plan, engage in amateur fishing in the Reserve. (2) A person shall not, in the Reserve, take fish for sale. 6 Gear which may be used A person shall use only rod and line and attachments, or handline and attachments, to fish for or take fish in the Reserve.

East Point Aquatic Life Reserve Management Plan 1993 2 7 Undersize fish not to be taken (1) A person shall not, in the Reserve, take a fish that is less than 30 cm long. (2) A fish (other than a sedentary organism) shall be deemed not to have been taken if, as soon as possible after it has been taken, it is returned, with as little damage to the fish as possible, to the water from which it was taken. (3) A person shall not, in the Reserve: (a) take a sedentary organism; or (b) injure or destroy a sedentary organism, other than a sedentary organism brought into the Reserve by the person.

ENDNOTES East Point Aquatic Life Reserve Management Plan 1993 3 ENDNOTES 1 KEY Key to abbreviations amd = amended od = order app = appendix om = omitted bl = by-law pt = Part ch = Chapter r = regulation/rule cl = clause rem = remainder div = Division renum = renumbered exp = expires/expired rep = repealed f = forms s = section Gaz = Gazette sch = Schedule hdg = heading sdiv = Subdivision ins = inserted SL = Subordinate Legislation lt = long title sub = substituted nc = not commenced 2 GENERAL AMENDMENTS General amendments of a formal nature (which are not referred to in the table of amendments to this reprint) are made by the Interpretation Legislation Amendment Act 2018 (Act No. 22, 2018) to: s 1. 3 LIST OF LEGISLATION East Point Aquatic Life Reserve Management Plan Notified – Commenced 1 February 1993

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1 EAST POINT AQUATIC LIFE RESERVE MANAGEMENT PLAN 1993

NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA

As in force at 1 February 1993.