208AMinister may accredit plans or regimes

208A  Minister may accredit plans or regimes

  The Minister may, by instrument in writing, accredit for the purposes of this Division:

 (a) a plan of management within the meaning of section 17 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991; or

 (b) a plan of management for a fishery made by a State or self‑governing Territory and that is in force in the State or Territory; or

 (c) a regime determined in writing by the Australian Fisheries Management Authority under the Fisheries Administration Act 1991 for managing a fishery for which a plan of management (within the meaning of section 17 of the Fisheries Management Act 1991) is not in force;

if satisfied that:

 (d) the plan or regime requires persons engaged in fishing under the plan or regime to take all reasonable steps to ensure that members of listed threatened species are not killed or injured as a result of the fishing; and

 (e) the fishery to which the plan or regime relates does not, or is not likely to, adversely affect the survival or recovery in nature of the species.

84HC  At the end of section 212

Add:

 ; or (k) an action provided for by, and taken in accordance with, a plan or regime that is accredited under section 222A.

84HD  Before section 223