3Interpretation

3 Interpretation

[Rule 3 Substituted by S.R. 2019, No. 63, Applied:01 Nov 2019]

(1)  In these rules –

abalone means fish of the genus Haliotis;

abalone container includes a fishing vessel carrying abalone;

abalone iron means a lever that –

(a) is broadly flat-bladed and chisel-like; and

(b) has a blade this is not less than 18 millimetres in width;

abalone meat means any part of the flesh of an abalone that has been removed from its shell other than –

(a) in the course of cooking or being consumed; or

(b) for the purposes of being processed at processing premises;

Act means the Living Marine Resources Management Act 1995 ;

auxiliary vessel means a dinghy, tender or other vessel that is –

(a) part of the equipment of a fishing vessel; and

(b) transported with, capable of being carried on, and operated solely from, the fishing vessel; and

(c) not operated further than 2 nautical miles from the fishing vessel;

Bass Strait area means the area of State waters adjacent to the north coast of Tasmania and the Furneaux Group of islands in Bass Strait bounded in the west by an imaginary line running from the northernmost point of Woolnorth Point to the point of latitude 40° 37’ 14.40” South, longitude 144° 41’ 37.87” East, then running due north to the outer limit of State waters and bounded in the east by an imaginary line beginning where the line of longitude 147° 27’ 00” East meets the high-water mark of the north coast of the mainland of Tasmania in Anderson Bay, then running due north until its junction with the line of latitude 40° 39’ South, then due east along that line of latitude to the outer limit of State waters;