Commonwealth Consolidated Acts

FOREIGN FISHING LICENCES LEVY ACT 1991 - SECT 7

(1)

The Governor-General may make regulations, not inconsistent with this Act:

(a)

prescribing all matters required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or

(b)

necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to this Act.

(2)

Regulations made for the purposes of subsection 5(1) may prescribe the amount of, or method of calculating the amount of, levy imposed by this Act on the grant of a licence by reference to a matter specified in the regulations, being a matter relating to the boat or to the operations of the boat the use of which is authorised by the licence or, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, by reference to any one or more of the following matters:

(a)

the fact that the boat is included in a class of boats in respect of which an agreement relating to the operations or proposed operations of boats of that class is in force, being an agreement to which AFMA is a party;

(b)

the size or tonnage of the boat, measured as prescribed, or the power of the boat's main engine;

(c)

the quantity or kind of equipment permitted by the licence to be carried on the boat for the purpose of taking, processing or carrying fish;

(d)

the quantity of the fish, measured as prescribed, that the licence authorises to be taken or processed with the use of the boat or carried by the boat;

(e)

the kind of fish that the licence authorises to be taken or processed with the use of the boat or carried by the boat;

(f)

the conditions to which the licence is subject;

(g)

the method by which the licence authorises fish to be taken, processed or carried;

(h)

the degree of control that persons who are residents of Australia or of an external Territory have over the operations of the boat.