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Torres Strait Fisheries (Bêche-de-mer) Management Instrument 2022

The Protected Zone Joint Authority, acting in accordance with the powers conferred on the Authority by paragraph 35(1)(a) of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984, makes the following instrument under section 16, and in accordance with section 40, of the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984.

Dated: Friday 11 February 2022

Senator the Hon Jonathon Duniam

Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries
Assistant Minister for Industry Development
Chair, Protected Zone Joint Authority

Contents
1 Name
2 Commencement
3 Authority
4 Definitions
5 Schedules
6 Prohibition on taking, processing or carrying bêche-de-mer
7 Prohibition on taking, processing or carrying of undersize bêche-de-mer
8 Prohibition on the use of certain methods
9 Prohibition on the use of certain equipment
10 Prohibition on the use, possession or control of underwater breathing apparatus
Schedule 1—Repeals

  1        Name
  This instrument is the Torres Strait Fisheries (Bêche-de-mer) Management Instrument 2022.

  2        Commencement
 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Commencement information
Column 1                          Column 2      Column 3
Provisions                        Commencement  Date/Details
1.  The whole of this instrument  1 March 2022  1 March 2022

Note 1: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.
 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

  3        Authority
  This instrument is made under section 16 of the Act.

  4        Definitions
Note: A number of expressions used in this instrument are defined in section 3 of the Act, including the following:
               (a)      community fishing
               (b)      fish
               (c)      traditional inhabitant
               (d)      traditional fishing.
  In this instrument:
Act means the Torres Strait Fisheries Act 1984.
bêche-de-mer means fish of the families Holothuriidae and Stichopodidae.
bêche-de-mer fishery means the area of the bêche-de-mer fishery prescribed in item 1 of Schedule 2 to the Torres Strait Fisheries Regulations 1985.
bêche-de-mer licenced person means a person who has been granted a licence under subsection 19(2), 19(3) or 19(4A) of the Act that authorises the taking, processing or carrying of bêche-de-mer in the bêche-de-mer fishery.
hookah gear means equipment to enable a person to breathe underwater where the air is supplied from either an air compressor or one or more air cylinders above the surface of the water, and includes equipment which may be described as surface supplied breathing equipment or surface supplied