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Fisheries Act 1988
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70 Regulations and notices
(1) Where a Joint Authority is to manage a fishery in accordance with
the law of the Territory, the Administrator may, for the purpose of
giving effect to a decision of the Joint Authority:
(a) make regulations for the management of the fishery;
(b) deem a regulation made otherwise than pursuant to this
section to be a regulation applying to the fishery; or
(c) amend a regulation made otherwise than pursuant to this
section so that it is expressed to apply to the fishery, whether
or not it also applies to another fishery.
(2) The power conferred on the Administrator to make regulations
otherwise than under subsection (1) does not extend to the making
of a regulation of a kind referred to in subsection (1)(a) or (b) or the
amendment of a regulation in the manner referred to in
subsection (1)(c).
(3) Where a regulation affecting a fishery that is to be managed by a
Joint Authority is expressed to be made pursuant to this section, it
shall be conclusively presumed that it was made for the purpose of
giving effect to a decision of the Joint Authority.