Western Australian Consolidated Acts

PEARLING ACT 1990 - NOTES

Notes

¹ This is a compilation of the Pearling Act 1990 and includes the amendments made by the other written laws referred to in the following table. The table also contains information about any reprint.

Compilation table

Short title	Number and year	Assent	Commencement
Pearling Act 1990	88 of 1990	17 Dec 1990	1 Jan 1991 (see s. 2 and Gazette 21 Dec 1990 p. 6199)
Financial Administration Legislation Amendment Act 1993 s. 11	6 of 1993	27 Aug 1993	1 Jul 1993 (see s. 2(1))
Land (Titles and Traditional Usage) Act 1993 s. 45	21 of 1993	2 Dec 1993	2 Dec 1993 (see s. 2)
Pearling Amendment Act 1994 5	23 of 1994	22 Jun 1994	3 Feb 1995 (see s. 2 and Gazette 20 Jan 1995 p. 203)
Acts Amendment and Repeal (Native Title) Act 1995 Pt. 10	52 of 1995	24 Nov 1995	9 Dec 1995 (see s. 2 and Gazette 8 Dec 1995 p. 5935)
Sentencing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1995 Pt. 62	78 of 1995	16 Jan 1996	4 Nov 1996 (see s. 2(1) and Gazette 25 Oct 1996 p. 5632)
Financial Legislation Amendment Act 1996 s. 64	49 of 1996	25 Oct 1996	25 Oct 1996 (see s. 2(1))
Acts Amendment (Marine Reserves) Act 1997 Pt. 7	5 of 1997	10 Jun 1997	29 Aug 1997 (see s. 2 and Gazette 29 Aug 1997 p. 4867)
Pearling Amendment Act 1998	55 of 1998	14 Dec 1998	14 Dec 1998 (see s. 2)
Reprint of the Pearling Act 1990 as at 3 Nov 2000 (includes amendments listed above)
Acts Amendment (Australian Datum) Act 2000 s. 6	54 of 2000	28 Nov 2000	8 Nov 2003 (see s. 2 and Gazette 2 Sep 2003 p. 3923)
State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 2 Div. 95 6, 7	55 of 2004	24 Nov 2004	1 Jan 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7130)

Criminal Procedure and Appeals (Consequential and Other Provisions) Act 2004 s. 80		84 of 2004	16 Dec 2004		2 May 2005 (see s. 2 and Gazette 31 Dec 2004 p. 7129 (correction in Gazette 7 Jan 2005 p. 53))
Machinery of Government (Miscellaneous Amendments) Act 2006 Pt. 8 Div. 4		28 of 2006	26 Jun 2006		1 Jul 2006 (see s. 2 and Gazette 27 Jun 2006 p. 2347)
Reprint 2: The Pearling Act 1990 as at 6 Oct 2006 (includes amendments listed above)
Financial Legislation Amendment and Repeal Act 2006 s. 4 and 17		77 of 2006	21 Dec 2006		1 Feb 2007 (see s. 2 and Gazette 19 Jan 2007 p. 137)
Standardisation of Formatting Act 2010 s. 4	19 of 2010		28 Jun 2010	11 Sep 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 10 Sep 2010 p. 4341)
Public Sector Reform Act 2010 s. 89	39 of 2010		1 Oct 2010	1 Dec 2010 (see s. 2(b) and Gazette 5 Nov 2010 p. 5563)
Personal Property Securities (Consequential Repeals and Amendments) Act 2011 Pt. 7 Div. 2	42 of 2011		4 Oct 2011	30 Jan 2012 (see s. 2(c) and Cwlth Legislative Instrument No. F2011L02397 cl. 5 registered 21 Nov 2011)

² Repealed by the Fish Resources Management Act 1994.

³ Footnote no longer applicable.

⁴ Repealed by the Fisheries Legislation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 of the Commonwealth.

⁵ The Pearling Amendment Act 1994 s. 6 reads as follows:

“
6. Savings

(1) Nothing in this Act affects the continued operation of —

(a) any arrangement in force immediately before the commencement of this Act;

(b) anything done under an arrangement before the commencement of the Act; or

(c) anything done by a Joint Authority before the commencement of this Act.

(2) In this section, “arrangement” and “Joint Authority” have the same respective meanings as in Part IIA of the Fisheries Act 1905 (as in force immediately before the commencement of the Fisheries Amendment Act 1994).

”.

⁶ The State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Pt. 5, the State Administrative Tribunal Act 2004 s. 167 and 169, and the State Administrative Tribunal Regulations 2004 r. 28 and 42 deal with certain transitional issues some of which may be relevant for this Act.

⁷ The State Administrative Tribunal Regulations 2004 r. 60 reads as follows:

“

60. Pearling Act 1990

(1) In this regulation —

commencement day means the day on which the State Administrative Tribunal (Conferral of Jurisdiction) Amendment and Repeal Act 2004 Part 2 Division 95 comes into operation.

(2) If a notice has been published in the Gazette under the Pearling Act 1990 section 23(8) in the period of 14 days before the commencement day, on or after the commencement day the notice is to be taken to refer to a right of review set out in section 33 of the Pearling Act 1990.

(3) If a notice has been served under the Pearling Act 1990 section 33(2) in the period of 14 days before the commencement day, on or after the commencement day the notice is to be taken to refer to a right of review set out in section 33 of the Pearling Act 1990.

”.

Defined Terms

[This is a list of terms defined and the provisions where they are defined. The list is not part of the law.]

Defined Term Provision(s)
arrangement Sch. 3, cl. 6(3)
Australian fishing zone 3(1)
boat 3(1)
CEO 3(1)
Committee 3(1)
Commonwealth Fisheries Act 3(1)
condition Sch. 3, cl. 6(3)
Department 3(1)
farm lease 3(1)
Fisheries Research and Development Account 3(1)
foreign boat 3(1)
hatchery activities 3(1)
hatchery licence 3(1)
hatchery permit 3(1)
inspector 3(1)
Joint Authority pearl oyster fishery 43(2)
licence 3(1), Sch. 3, cl. 6(3)
marine management area 23A(5), 27A(5)
marine nature reserve 23A(5), 27A(5)
marine park 23A(5), 27A(5)
master 3(1)
pearl 3(1)
pearl boat licence 3(1)
pearl boat master’s licence 3(1)
pearl culture techniques 3(1)
pearl diver’s licence 3(1)
pearl oyster 3(1)
pearl oyster farm 3(1)
pearl oyster fishery 43(2)
pearling 3(1)
pearling licence 3(1)
pearling permit 3(1)
permit 3(1)
person aggrieved 33(10)
quota 3(1)
sale 3(1)
the primary offence 57(1)
the quota offence 9(1)
the regulations 3(1)
the repeal time Sch. 3, cl. 1
the repealed Act Sch. 3, cl. 1
unattached 27B(4)
waters 3(1)
Western Australian waters 3(1)
zone 3(1)