sec.315Other prohibited interactions

sec.315 Other prohibited interactions

A person must not, without a reasonable excuse, do any of the following— make a loud or sudden noise within 300m of a marine mammal that may disturb the mammal; recordings of whale or dolphin sounds or songs played under water touch a marine mammal; feed a marine mammal. Maximum penalty—80 penalty units. Subsection (1) (c) does not apply to— the feeding of a dolphin— under section 45 (1) ; or under a permission granted under the Marine Parks Act 2004 ; or See the Marine Parks Regulation 2017 , section 19 for the restriction on the grant of permissions authorising the feeding of dolphins in a marine park or part of a marine park. the discarding of bycatch, by a commercial fisher, in a way that is not directed towards feeding a marine mammal. In this section— commercial fisher see the Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019 , section 5 . (sec.315-ssec.1) A person must not, without a reasonable excuse, do any of the following— make a loud or sudden noise within 300m of a marine mammal that may disturb the mammal; recordings of whale or dolphin sounds or songs played under water touch a marine mammal; feed a marine mammal. Maximum penalty—80 penalty units. (sec.315-ssec.2) Subsection (1) (c) does not apply to— the feeding of a dolphin— under section 45 (1) ; or under a permission granted under the Marine Parks Act 2004 ; or See the Marine Parks Regulation 2017 , section 19 for the restriction on the grant of permissions authorising the feeding of dolphins in a marine park or part of a marine park. the discarding of bycatch, by a commercial fisher, in a way that is not directed towards feeding a marine mammal. (sec.315-ssec.3) In this section— commercial fisher see the Fisheries (General) Regulation 2019 , section 5 .

• (a) make a loud or sudden noise within 300m of a marine mammal that may disturb the mammal; Examples of loud or sudden noise that may disturb a marine mammal— recordings of whale or dolphin sounds or songs played under water
• (b) touch a marine mammal;
• (c) feed a marine mammal.
• (a) the feeding of a dolphin— (i) under section 45 (1) ; or (ii) under a permission granted under the Marine Parks Act 2004 ; or Note— See the Marine Parks Regulation 2017 , section 19 for the restriction on the grant of permissions authorising the feeding of dolphins in a marine park or part of a marine park.
• (i) under section 45 (1) ; or
• (ii) under a permission granted under the Marine Parks Act 2004 ; or Note— See the Marine Parks Regulation 2017 , section 19 for the restriction on the grant of permissions authorising the feeding of dolphins in a marine park or part of a marine park.
• (b) the discarding of bycatch, by a commercial fisher, in a way that is not directed towards feeding a marine mammal.