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Fisheries Management Act 1994
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#### 198A Definitions
198A Definitions
> In this Division—
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> dredging work means—
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> > (a) any work that involves excavating water land, or
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> > (b) any work that involves moving material on water land or removing material from water land that is prescribed by the regulations as being dredging work to which this Division applies.
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> farm dam means the backed up waters of any dam, or impoundment, located on land that is not public water land.
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> reclamation work means any work that involves—
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> > (a) using any material (such as sand, soil, silt, gravel, concrete, oyster shells, tyres, timber or rocks) to fill in or reclaim water land, or
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> > (b) depositing any such material on water land for the purpose of constructing anything over water land (such as a bridge), or
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> > (c) draining water from water land for the purpose of its reclamation.
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> water land means land submerged by water—
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> > (a) whether permanently or intermittently, or
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> > (b) whether forming an artificial or natural body of water,
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> and includes wetlands and any other land prescribed by the regulations as water land to which this Division applies.
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> wetlands includes marshes, mangroves, swamps, or other areas that form a shallow body of water when inundated intermittently or permanently with fresh, brackish or salt water, and where the inundation determines the type and productivity of the soils and the plant and animal communities.
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> **s 198A:** Ins 2000 No 86, Sch 6.2 \[7\]. Am 2018 No 25, Sch 1.11 \[3\].