Inland Fisheries Act 1995
188Regulations relating to buying and selling fish
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188 Regulations relating to buying and selling fish
(1) The Governor may make regulations –
(a) prohibiting the sale or possession by any specified class of person on business premises of any fish or fish of any specified kind or species of fish; and
(b) regulating the buying and selling of any fish or any specified kind or species of fish.
(2) Subsection (1) (a) does not apply to –
(a) State waters; or
(b) any fish, other than freshwater fish, taken from State waters; or
(c) any registered private fishery; or
(d) any licensed fish farm.
(3) Subsection (1) (b) does not apply to –
(a) declared fish produced or taken at a licensed fish farm that –
(i) are of the kind or species in respect of which that fish farm is licensed; and
(ii) have not been removed or escaped from the fish farm and liberated or escaped into any water other than another licensed fish farm; or
(b) declared fish imported into the State under this Act.