Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00644:section:60:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00644
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 60 (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 208768–211498

60  Regulations
 (1) The Governor‑General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act:
 (a) prescribing matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
 (b) prescribing matters necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act;
and in particular:
 (c) prescribing penalties, not exceeding 20 penalty units in the case of a natural person and 100 penalty units in the case of a body corporate, for offences against the regulations; and
 (ca) providing for the remission or refund of levy under the Fisheries Levy Act 1984, or fees under this Act, in specified circumstances; and
 (d) prescribing conditions or classes of conditions to which licences or Treaty endorsements may be subject; and
 (da) providing for the replacement of licences and other instruments granted or executed under this Act or the regulations and prescribing fees for such replacement; and
 (e) prescribing signals and rules of navigation to be observed by fishermen in areas of Australian jurisdiction; and
 (f) for providing for the marking of boats licensed under this Act and of nets, traps, containers and other equipment used for taking or storing fish; and
 (g) for regulating the rights of priority as between fishermen or boats in areas of Australian jurisdiction and prescribing the rules of fishing in those areas; and
 (h) prescribing rules to be observed in trans‑shipping fish in areas of Australian jurisdiction; and
 (j) for facilitating the exercise by officers of their powers under section 42; and
 (k) for providing for the reporting of the positions of foreign boats licensed under this Act at times when those boats are in areas of Australian jurisdiction; and
 (m) for requiring the master of a boat that is being used for commercial fishing in an area of Australian jurisdiction to permit a prescribed person or a person included in a prescribed class of persons to go on board the boat and for requiring the master to provide accommodation and facilities for that person while the person remains on board the boat; and
 (n) for providing for the furnishing of returns containing information in relation to:
 (i) the taking of fish in areas of Australian jurisdiction and the sale or disposal of those fish;
 (ii) the processing of fish taken in areas of Australian jurisdiction and the sale or disposal of fish so processed;
 (iia) the carrying and transhipping of fish taken in areas of Australian jurisdiction;
 (iii) the taking of fish with the use of Australian boats in areas of Papua New Guinea jurisdiction and the sale or disposal of those fish;
 (iv) the processing of fish taken with the use of Australian boats in areas of Papua New Guinea jurisdiction and the