Fisheries (Shellfish) Rules 2017
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19 Purge supervisors
(1) This rule applies to a purge supervisor of a fishing licence (class shellfish) (the licence).
(2) A purge supervisor to whom this rule applies must not take any fish under the licence.
Penalty: Grade 3 penalty.
(3) A purge supervisor to whom this rule applies must not be in possession of shellfish of a species listed on the licence unless –
(a) the purge supervisor is, for commercial purposes, removing the shellfish from a purge site endorsed on the licence; and
(b) if the process under paragraph (a) first requires the purge supervisor to remove any of the shellfish from a fish cauf at the purge site, the purge supervisor is in possession of the purge site record relating to that fish cauf.
Penalty: Grade 3 penalty.
(4) A purge supervisor to whom this rule applies must not, in removing any shellfish taken under the licence from a purge site, cause or allow those shellfish to come into contact with or get mixed up with shellfish taken under any other licence.
Penalty: Grade 2 penalty.
(5) A purge supervisor to whom this rule applies must not be on board a vessel being used for the purposes of the licence if there is diving equipment of any kind on board the vessel.
Penalty: Grade 2 penalty.
(6) A purge supervisor to whom this rule applies must not, in connection with the licence, use any shellfish disposal receipt book other than the shellfish disposal receipt book that has been most recently issued to him or her personally under the Act as the purge supervisor of the licence.
Penalty: Grade 2 penalty.
(7) A purge supervisor to whom this rule applies must not allow any other person to use a shellfish disposal receipt book that has been issued to him or her personally under the Act as the purge supervisor of the licence.
Penalty: Grade 2 penalty.
(8) In this rule –
shellfish disposal receipt book means a book of shellfish disposal receipts;
use, in relation to a shellfish disposal receipt book, includes signing, writing or recording anything in the book, removing any folio from the book and inserting or substituting any folio in the book.