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Fisheries Management Act 1994
107Licence required to use boat for declared commercial fishing boat activities
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#### 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.
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> > (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.
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> > (3) A commercial fishing boat activity is any activity involving the use of a boat—
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> > > (a) to take fish for sale from waters to which this Act applies, or
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> > > (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).
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> > (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.
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> **s 107:** Subst 2015 No 59, Sch 1 \[62\].