Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00644:section:3:p1
Version: federal_register_of_legislation:C2024C00644
Segment Type: section
Provision Reference: s 3 (pt 1/6)
Character Range: 12742–15276

3  Interpretation
 (1) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears:
AFMA means the Australian Fisheries Management Authority.
AFMA staff member has the same meaning as in the Fisheries Administration Act 1991.
area of Australian jurisdiction means:
 (a) any area of waters in the Protected Zone (other than an area within the Protected Zone coastal waters of Queensland) to the south of the line described in Annex 8 to the Torres Strait Treaty;
 (b) if there is in force a Proclamation under subsection 15(1) or (2) in relation to an area of waters—so much of that area of waters as is not within the Protected Zone coastal waters of Queensland; and
 (c) if there is in force an arrangement under Part V that provides that a particular fishery, being a fishery that is so defined that it is or may be carried on wholly or partly within the Protected Zone coastal waters of Queensland, is to be managed in accordance with the law of the Commonwealth—that part of the Protected Zone coastal waters of Queensland to which the arrangement relates;
but does not, except to the extent necessary for the purposes of giving effect to an arrangement of the kind referred to in paragraph (c), include, in relation to any act or thing done for the purposes of fishing for sedentary organisms, any part of the Protected Zone to the north of the line described in Annex 5 to the Torres Strait Treaty.
area of Papua New Guinea jurisdiction means any area of waters in the Protected Zone (other than an area within the Protected Zone coastal waters of Queensland) to the north of the line described in Annex 5 to the Torres Strait Treaty, but does not include, in relation to any act or thing done for the purpose of fishing for fish other than sedentary organisms, any area to the south of the line described in Annex 8 to the Torres Strait Treaty.
Australian boat means a boat that is not a Papua New Guinea boat and the operations of which are based on a place in Australia and which is wholly owned by a natural person who is a resident of, or by a company incorporated in, Australia, being a boat that:
 (a) was built in Australia;
 (b) has been lawfully imported into Australia, otherwise than for a limited period; or
 (c) has been sold, or otherwise disposed of, in Australia after having been forfeited or distrained under a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory.
Australian resident means:
 (a) a person who holds a permanent visa (as defined in the Migration Act 1958) that is in effect; or
 (b) a New Zealand citizen