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Fisheries Act 1995
111AOffence to traffick in a commercial quantity of a priority species
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111A Offence to traffick in a commercial quantity of a priority species
(1) A person must not traffick in a commercial quantity of a priority species unless he or she is authorised to do so under this Act.
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) is guilty of an indictable offence and is liable to a penalty not exceeding level 5 imprisonment (10 years maximum).
(3) Without limiting subsection (1), a reference to ***traffick*** in this section includes—
(a) preparing a priority species for trafficking;
(b) processing a priority species;
(c) selling a priority species;
(d) taking a priority species for sale;
(e) receiving a priority species.
S. 111B inserted by No. 108/2003 s. 5.