Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00131:section:3:p2
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2025C00131
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 2/7)
Character Range: 19291–22114

waste, however the release is caused, and includes any escape, disposal, depositing, spilling, leaking, pumping, emitting or emptying of the waste.
dory means:
 (a) a vessel in relation to which a licence or other permission (however described and whether or not in force) has been granted under a law of the Commonwealth, a State or a Territory authorising the vessel to be used in association with a primary commercial fishing vessel; or
 (b) a vessel that is used in association with a primary commercial fishing vessel.
Note: A dory might also be known as a tender commercial fishing vessel.
ecologically sustainable use has the meaning given by section 3AA.
ecosystem‑based management means an integrated approach to managing an ecosystem and matters affecting that ecosystem, with the main object being to maintain ecological processes, biodiversity and functioning biological communities.
emergency direction has the meaning given by subsection 61ACA(2).
enforceable direction has the meaning given by subsection 61ADA(2).
enforcement provision, in relation to a plan of management or an amendment of a plan of management, has the meaning given by subsection 39ZD(5) or by that subsection as it has effect because of subsection 39ZG(2), as the case may be.
engage in conduct has the same meaning as in the Criminal Code.
environmental management means:
 (a) environmental management;
 (b) natural resource management;
 (c) park management (including aquarium management and zoo management); or
 (d) any similar matter.
executive officer, of a body corporate, means a person, by whatever name called and whether or not a director of the body, who is concerned in, or takes part in, the management of the body.
farming facility means a facility for the farming of marine resources.
Federal Court means the Federal Court of Australia.
fish includes all species of bony fish, sharks, rays, crustaceans, molluscs and other marine organisms, but does not include marine mammals or marine reptiles.
fishing means any of the following:
 (a) taking fish;
 (b) attempting to take fish;
 (c) engaging in any activity (including searching for fish, using fishing apparatus and using fish aggregating devices) in connection with taking, or attempting to take, fish.
geological storage operations means:
 (a) operations to inject and store a gas substance in part of a geological formation; or
 (b) operations preparing for or incidental to operations mentioned in paragraph (a).
Great Barrier Reef Region means:
 (a) the area described in Schedule 1; and
 (b) such area (if any) contiguous with the northern boundary of that area as is prescribed;
other than any part of such an area that is referred to in section 14 of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 or is an island, or a part of an island, that forms part of Queensland