Fisheries (Commercial Fisheries) Regulation 2019
sec.73Obligations of licence holders under usage notice
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sec.73 Obligations of licence holders under usage notice
This section prescribes a condition for a trawl licence that applies if the holder of the licence is given a usage notice. The holder of the licence must ensure that every person acting under the licence is aware of the matters mentioned in the usage notice. Subsection (4) applies if the usage notice states that the total entitlement is likely to be used in the next month. A person in control of a relevant boat under the licence must use the AIVR system, on each day the boat is to be used to take fish under the licence, to obtain the following information before any person starts using the boat to take fish on that day— whether the total entitlement has been used; if the person finds out by using the AIVR system that the total entitlement has been used on that day or an earlier day—the day the regulated period will start under the Fisheries Declaration 2019 , section 92 (3) . A person in control of a relevant boat under the licence complies with subsection (4) if another person obtains the information, in compliance with that subsection, for the person in control of the boat. In this section— relevant boat , under a trawl licence, means a boat that is to be used to take fish under the licence from the reef world heritage area regulated waters. s 73 amd 2020 SL No. 236 s 137 (sec.73-ssec.1) This section prescribes a condition for a trawl licence that applies if the holder of the licence is given a usage notice. (sec.73-ssec.2) The holder of the licence must ensure that every person acting under the licence is aware of the matters mentioned in the usage notice. (sec.73-ssec.3) Subsection (4) applies if the usage notice states that the total entitlement is likely to be used in the next month. (sec.73-ssec.4) A person in control of a relevant boat under the licence must use the AIVR system, on each day the boat is to be used to take fish under the licence, to obtain the following information before any person starts using the boat to take fish on that day— whether the total entitlement has been used; if the person finds out by using the AIVR system that the total entitlement has been used on that day or an earlier day—the day the regulated period will start under the Fisheries Declaration 2019 , section 92 (3) . (sec.73-ssec.5) A person in control of a relevant boat under the licence complies with subsection (4) if another person obtains the information, in compliance with that subsection, for the person in control of the boat. (sec.73-ssec.6) In this section— relevant boat , under a trawl licence, means a boat that is to be used to take fish under the licence from the reef world heritage area regulated waters.
- (a) whether the total entitlement has been used;
- (b) if the person finds out by using the AIVR system that the total entitlement has been used on that day or an earlier day—the day the regulated period will start under the Fisheries Declaration 2019 , section 92 (3) .