193Regulations relating to marking

193 Regulations relating to marking

(1)  The Governor may make regulations –

(a) regulating the marking of freshwater fish; and

(b) regulating the possession of marking materials or of marking materials of a specified nature or kind; and

(c) regulating the supply of marking materials; and

(d) prescribing the manner and circumstances in which marking materials are to be returned or destroyed; and

(e) prescribing the manner in which records relating to the supply, use, disposal or destruction of marking materials are to be kept; and

(f) prescribing the manner in which, and the persons by whom, freshwater fish may be marked; and

(g) regulating the buying, selling or possession of freshwater fish that are not properly marked; and

(h) regulating the removal from a licensed fish farm of any freshwater fish unless they are properly marked.

(2)  This section does not apply to the keeping of freshwater fish on a licensed fish farm that are not properly marked if the fish –

(a) have been produced or taken in that fish farm; and

(b) are of a kind or species in respect of which the fish farm is licensed.

(3)  A fish is properly marked if it is marked –

(a) in the prescribed manner; and

(b) by a person authorised under regulations made under this section to mark it.