6Persons carrying out exempt activities do not require aquaculture permits—the Act, s 144(4)

6 Persons carrying out exempt activities do not require aquaculture permits—the Act, s 144(4)

6 Persons carrying out exempt activities do not require aquaculture permits—the Act, s 144(4)

(1) For the Act, section 144(4), a person who carries out an exempt activity is excluded from the operation of the Act, section 144 in relation to the exempt activity.

(2) In this section—

exempt activity means the following—

(a) the cultivation of ornamental fish by a person in a pond, tank or other structure if the total capacity of all structures in which the person cultivates the ornamental fish is less than 10,000L,

(b) the keeping of fish by a person in a confined area for the purposes of selling the fish alive if the person does not cultivate the fish.

ornamental fish means fish cultivated for exhibition or sale in the aquarium industry but does not include—

(a) fish cultivated for human consumption, or

(b) fish cultivated for stocking—

(i) a farm dam, within the meaning of the Act, section 198A, or

(ii) public water land.