96Maintaining access to Internet or mobile telephone network

96 Maintaining access to Internet or mobile telephone network

(1) This regulation applies to the holder of a commercial fishery licence that is—

(a) required under these Regulations to provide specified details, via the fisheries notification service, to the Victorian Fisheries Authority; or

(b) required to submit electronic catch and effort records, via the fisheries notification service, to the Victorian Fisheries Authority.

(2) The licence holder must, to the extent reasonably practicable, maintain—

(a) where the means of accessing the fisheries notification service is telephone-based, a means to access—

(i) the mobile telephone network, at any time when at the point of landing; or

(ii) in the case of the holder of a fish receiver licence, the telephone network at the premises specified in the licence; and

(b) where the means of accessing the fisheries notification service is Internet-based, a means to access the Internet—

(i) at any time when at the point of landing; or

(ii) in the case of the holder of a fish receiver licence, at the premises specified in the licence.

Part 3—Recreational fishery licences

Division 1—Class of recreational fishery licence

97 Class of recreational fishery licence

For the purposes of section 45 of the Act, a recreational fishing licence is created as a class of recreational fishery licence.