Western Australian Consolidated Acts Western Australian Consolidated Acts If upon the conclusion
of the period of operation of a fisheries adjustment scheme the Minister is
satisfied that there is available in the account maintained for that scheme a
credit balance in excess of the amount reasonably required for the purpose of
satisfying all the outstanding liabilities of that scheme, the Minister shall
cause the amount of that credit balance to be applied —
(a) in
returning that proportion of the balance attributable to parliamentary
appropriation, to the credit of the Consolidated Account; and
(aa) in
returning that proportion of the balance attributable to moneys credited to
the Account from the Fisheries Research and Development Account or the
Recreational Fishing Account, to the credit of the Account from which the
moneys came; and
(b) in
returning that proportion of the balance attributable to fees, to those
persons pro rata who, upon the conclusion of the period of operation of the
scheme, are holders of authorisations that authorise fishing in a fishery to
which the scheme applies and have paid fees under section 8 in respect of
those authorisations; and
(c) in
the case of any other moneys, to the credit of the Fisheries Research and
Development Account or the Recreational Fishing Account, as the Minister
thinks fit.
[Section 9 amended by No. 41 of 1990
s. 7; No. 6 of 1993 s. 11; No. 54 of 1994 s. 13;
No. 77 of 2006 s. 4 and Sch. 1 cl. 69(4); No. 38 of 2009
s. 6.]