36Fisheries agreements

36 Fisheries agreements

(1) If the Commonwealth enters into an agreement with the government of another country that contains a provision under which foreign fishing licences are agreed to be granted in respect of foreign boats (whether or not the provision also provides for the payment of an amount or amounts to the Commonwealth), the Minister is to cause a copy of the agreement to be laid before each House of the Parliament within 15 sitting days of that House after the agreement is entered into. (2) Where: (a) an agreement that contains a provision of a kind mentioned in subsection (1) is in force; and (b) the provision provides for the payment of an amount or amounts to the Commonwealth; and (c) a foreign fishing licence or licences to which the provision relates has or have been granted in respect of a foreign fishing boat or foreign fishing boats; and (d) the whole or any part of an amount specified in the provision is not paid to the Commonwealth in accordance with the terms of the provision; AFMA may suspend each licence by written notice given to the holder of the licence. (3) Where AFMA has suspended a licence under subsection (2) and the amount concerned is fully paid, AFMA must revoke the suspension by written notice given to the holder of the licence. (4) Subsections (2) and (3) have effect only so far as those subsections are not laws imposing taxation within the meaning of section 55 of the Constitution.