156Interference with fisheries signs and fishing boundary posts

156 Interference with fisheries signs and fishing boundary posts

(1) A person must not remove, interfere with, damage or deface a fisheries sign.

(2) A person must not remove, interfere with, damage or deface a fishing boundary post erected for the purposes of the Act, regulations under the Act, a fisheries notice or an Order under the Act.

(3) Subregulations (1) and (2) do not apply to a person who is authorised by the Victorian Fisheries Authority or the manager of the land where a fisheries sign or fishing boundary post is located to alter or remove a fisheries sign or fishing boundary post.

fisheries sign includes a sign or notice—

(a) erected or posted for the purposes of the Act, regulations under the Act, a fisheries notice or an Order under the Act that—

(i) is identified as a notice of the Victorian Fisheries Authority; or

(ii) contains information about compliance with a provision of the Act, any regulation under the Act, a fisheries notice or an Order under the Act; or

(b) erected or posted as part of a response to a shark hazard that contains information about a shark hazard.

Part 7—Fish other than abalone, giant crab, rock lobster, scallop and sea urchin

Division 1—Minimum and maximum sizes, catch limits and closed seasons for fish other than abalone, giant crab, rock lobster, scallop or sea urchin

157 Minimum sizes

(1) For the purposes of the Act, the minimum size for the taking or possession of a species of fish specified in Column 2 of the Table in Schedule 24 is the size, if any, specified in Column 3 of that Table corresponding to that species of fish.

(2) For the purposes of the Act and despite anything to the contrary in subregulation (1), the minimum size for fish of a species specified in Column 2 of the Table in Schedule 25 when taken or possessed by a holder of an access licence or a person acting on behalf of an access licence holder, is the size specified in Column 3 of that Table corresponding to that species of fish.

(3) For the purposes of the Act, the minimum size for fish of a species of salmonid that are—

(a) taken from the waters described in Column 2 of the Table in Schedule 26; or

(b) possessed in, on or next to those waters—

is the size, if any, specified in Column 4 of that Table corresponding to those waters.