43Aquaculture licences

43 Aquaculture licences (1) The regulations may create classes of aquaculture licences and may specify that the holder of an aquaculture licence of a particular class may do one or more of the following— (a) use, form or create a habitat (whether natural, artificial or partly natural or artificial) in a specified area for hatching, rearing, breeding, displaying or growing specified fish or fishing bait for sale or other commercial purposes; (b) hatch, rear, breed, display or grow specified fish or fishing bait for sale or other commercial purposes; S. 43(1)(ba) inserted by No. 51/2007 s. 6(1)(a). (ba) stock fish into protected waters; S. 43(1)(c) amended by No. 51/2007 s. 6(1)(b). (c) use specified commercial aquaculture equipment or use commercial aquaculture equipment generally; S. 43(1)(d) inserted by No. 51/2007 s. 6(1)(c). (d) possess specified commercial aquaculture equipment or possess commercial aquaculture equipment generally; S. 43(1)(e) inserted by No. 51/2007 s. 6(1)(c). (e) engage one or more people to do one or more of the things listed in this subsection. S. 43(1AA) inserted by No. 60/2005 s. 30. (1AA) An aquaculture licence does not authorise the carrying out of any activity specified in subsection (1) in any national park, wilderness park or State park (within the meaning of the **National Parks Act 1975**) or any reference area (within the meaning of the **Reference Areas Act 1978**). S. 43(1AB) inserted by No. 60/2005 s. 30. (1AB) Subsection (1AA) does not apply to any aquaculture licence in force immediately before 7 March 2005, to the extent of any entitlements under that licence that were in force at that time. S. 43(1A) inserted by No. 108/2003 s. 26, amended by No. 51/2007 s. 6(2). (1A) The Minister may, by order published in the Government Gazette, create classes of aquaculture licences to give effect to a management plan and may specify that the holder of an aquaculture licence of a particular class may do one or more of the things listed in subsections (1)(a) to (1)(e) in the reserve to which the management plan applies. S. 43(1B) inserted by No. 108/2003 s. 26. (1B) The Minister may only create a class of aquaculture licence under subsection (1A) if the draft management plan for the reserve states that the creation of that class of licence will be necessary to give effect to the plan. S. 43(1C) inserted by No. 108/2003 s. 26. (1C) A licence of a class of aquaculture licence created under subsection (1A) is subject to the same fees and levies as apply to a licence of a specified class of aquaculture licence created by the regulations. S. 43(1D) inserted by No. 108/2003 s. 26. (1D) In creating a class of aquaculture licence under subsection (1A), the Minister must, for the purposes of subsection (1C), specify a class of aquaculture licence created by the regulations. S. 43(2) amended by No. 68/2016 s. 59(1). (2) The Victorian Fisheries Authority may issue an aquaculture licence of a particular class to a person. S. 43(3) amended by No. 68/2016 s. 59(2). (3) An aquaculture licence continues in force for the period specified on the licence by the Victorian Fisheries Authority unless it is sooner cancelled or suspended under this Act. S. 43(4) amended by Nos 51/2007 s. 6(3), 35/2009 s. 57. (4) If an aquaculture licence authorises the holder of the licence to hatch, rear, breed, display or grow specified fish or fishing bait for sale, the holder of the licence is also authorised to take, possess, store, process or sell that fish or fishing bait. S. 44 substituted by No. 5/1997 s. 9, amended by No. 17/2002 s. 3(2) (ILA s. 39B(1)).