Fisheries Management Act 1994
220IHow nominations made
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220I How nominations made
220I How nominations made
(1) Any person may nominate an amendment of Schedule 4, 4A, 5 or 6.
(2) A nomination must be in writing addressed to the Chairperson of the Fisheries Scientific Committee and must include any information prescribed by the regulations.
(3) The Fisheries Scientific Committee may request a person who makes a nomination to provide additional information about the subject-matter of the nomination within a specified period.
(4) A person must not deliberately and wilfully make a vexatious nomination.
Maximum penalty (subsection (4)): 20 penalty units.
(5) The Fisheries Scientific Committee is to give notice of a nomination to the Minister and the NRC within 14 days after the nomination is made.
s 220I: Ins 1997 No 153, Sch 1 [9]. Am 2004 No 88, Sch 2 [14] [15].