Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00644:section:15a:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00644
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 15A (pt 1/3)
Character Range: 43650–46348

15A  Management plans
 (1) The Minister may, by legislative instrument, determine a plan of management for a fishery in an area of Australian jurisdiction.
 (2) A plan of management for a fishery must set out:
 (a) the objectives of the plan of management; and
 (b) measures by which the objectives are to be attained; and
 (c) performance criteria against which, and time frames within which, the measures taken under the plan of management may be assessed.
 (2A) The objectives to be set out under paragraph (2)(a) must be consistent with, but are not limited to, the objectives set out in section 8.
 (3) Subsections (4), (5) and (6) do not limit, by implication, the matters required by subsection (2) to be set out in a plan of management for a fishery.
 (4) The Minister may, in a plan of management for a fishery:
 (a) determine the manner in which the fishing capacity of the fishery is to be measured; and
 (b) provide for the periodic determination of the fishing capacity, measured in that manner, permitted for the fishery.
 (5) A plan of management for a fishery may make provision for and in relation to the following in respect of the fishery:
 (a) the granting of permits under section 12;
 (b) the conditions to which permits granted under section 12 are to be subject;
 (c) the duration, renewal, variation and revocation of permits granted under section 12;
 (d) the making of instruments under section 14;
 (e) the making of instruments under section 16;
 (f) the making of declarations under section 17;
 (g) the granting of licences under section 19;
 (h) the conditions to which licences granted under section 19 are to be subject;
 (i) the duration, transfer, renewal and variation of licences granted under section 19;
 (j) the making of Treaty endorsements under section 20;
 (k) the conditions to which Treaty endorsements made under section 20 are to be subject;
 (l) the duration, transfer, renewal, variation and revocation of Treaty endorsements made under section 20;
 (m) the making of entries under section 21 in licences or Treaty endorsements;
 (n) the suspension, variation and revocation of entries made under section 21 in licences or Treaty endorsements.
 (6) If a plan of management for a fishery provides for the determination of the fishing capacity permitted for the fishery, the plan of management may make provision for and in relation to the following:
 (a) the division of the fishing capacity, or a part of the fishing capacity, permitted for the fishery into units (the units of fishing capacity);
 (b) the allocation to holders of licences under section 19 or other persons of units of fishing capacity in the fishery;
 (c) the assignment of units