443Additional condition of Aquaculture (Private Land—Indoor Intensive) Licences

443 Additional condition of Aquaculture (Private Land—Indoor Intensive) Licences

It is a condition of an Aquaculture (Private Land—Indoor Intensive) Licence that the licence holder must ensure that any activity authorised by the licence is carried out from an aquaculture production facility that—

(a) is wholly or substantially contained indoors; and

(b) utilises purpose-built biological filtration; and

(c) wholly or substantially recirculates or reconditions the effluent production water.

1 In addition to the condition set out in this regulation, every Aquaculture (Private Land—Indoor Intensive) Licence is subject to—

(a) any condition expressed or referred to in the licence by the Victorian Fisheries Authority under section 52(1)(a) of the Act; and

(b) the conditions applying to that class of licence set out in Division 4 of Part 2 and Division 2 of this Part.

2 Under section 53 of the Act, the holder of a licence or a person who does a thing on behalf of a licence holder, must comply with any condition to which the licence is subject. A contravention of that section may attract a maximum penalty of 50 penalty units and, in the case of an offence involving a priority species or breach of a designated licence condition, a maximum penalty of 100 penalty units or 6 months imprisonment or both.

3 Under regulation 463, the holder of a licence may apply to the Victorian Fisheries Authority for an exemption from a specified condition of the licence.