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Fisheries Act 1995
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64A Further quota order
(a) set the total allowable catch (by number, volume, weight or value) for a specified period for a quota fishery;
(b) determine the quantity of fish (by number, volume, weight or value) comprising an individual quota unit in a quota fishery in a specified period.
(2) The Minister may revoke or amend an order at any time by an order published in the Government Gazette.
(3) Without intending to limit the generality of subsection (2), the Minister may reduce the total allowable catch, or reduce the quantity of fish comprising an individual quota unit before the end of the period to which the total allowable catch or unit applies.
S. 64AB inserted by No. 17/2002 s. 7.
64AB Sub-zone orders
(a) declare that a quota fishery includes a sub‑zone; and
(b) set the portion of the total allowable catch for the quota fishery that applies in respect of a specified sub-zone; and
S. 64AB(1)(c) amended by No. 108/2003 s. 35(1)(a).
(c) determine the method for allocating that portion of the total allowable catch to the holders of access licences issued in respect of the quota fishery; and
S. 64AB(1)(d) inserted by No. 108/2003 s. 35(1)(b).
(d) declare that individual quota units in respect of a sub-zone may only be transferred to a licence holder holding a licence in respect of the same sub-zone;
(2) The Minister may revoke or amend an order under subsection (1) at any time by an order published in the Government Gazette.
S. 64AB(3) amended by No. 68/2016 s. 79.
(3) The Victorian Fisheries Authority must give the holder of an access licence in a quota fishery a sub-zone notice setting out details of the allocation of the portion of the total allowable catch in respect of the specified sub-zone that is applicable to the licence holder as soon as is practicable after a sub-zone order under this section is published.
S. 64B