107Licence required to use boat for declared commercial fishing boat activities

107 Licence required to use boat for declared commercial fishing boat activities

107 Licence required to use boat for declared commercial fishing boat activities

(1) A boat may be used for the purpose of a declared commercial fishing boat activity only if a fishing boat licence authorises the use of the boat for declared commercial fishing boat activities.

(2) For the purposes of this Division, a declared commercial fishing boat activity is any commercial fishing boat activity declared by the regulations to be a commercial fishing boat activity for which a fishing boat licence is required.

(3) A commercial fishing boat activity is any activity involving the use of a boat—

(a) to take fish for sale from waters to which this Act applies, or

(b) to land fish in New South Wales that were taken from other waters (after the boat departed from a port in New South Wales).

(4) The regulations may provide that a boat licensed under a law of the Commonwealth or of another State or a Territory is taken to be authorised to be used for the purposes of declared commercial fishing boat activities.

s 107: Subst 2015 No 59, Sch 1 [62].