Fisheries (Auckland and Kermadec Areas Amateur Fishing) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2008 (SR 2008/402)

2008/402

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Fisheries (Auckland and Kermadec Areas Amateur Fishing) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2008

Anand Satyanand, Governor-General

Order in Council

At Wellington this 20th day of October 2008

Present:
The Right Hon Helen Clark presiding in Council

Pursuant to section 297 of the Fisheries Act 1996, His Excellency the Governor-General, acting on the advice and with the consent of the Executive Council, makes the following regulations.

Regulations

1 Title
  • These regulations are the Fisheries (Auckland and Kermadec Areas Amateur Fishing) Amendment Regulations (No 3) 2008.

2 Commencement
  • These regulations come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette.

3 Principal regulations amended
4 Offences and penalties
  • Regulation 11(1) is amended by omitting 6C(1)(l)(iii) and substituting 6C(1)(l)(iii), 6CA.

Rebecca Kitteridge,
Clerk of the Executive Council.


Explanatory note

This note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general effect.

These regulations, which come into force on the 28th day after the date of their notification in the Gazette, make a minor technical amendment to the Fisheries (Auckland and Kermadec Areas Amateur Fishing) Regulations 1986. The amendment is intended to give better effect to the amendments that were recently made to the principal regulations by the Fisheries (Auckland and Kermadec Areas Amateur Fishing) Amendment Regulations (No 2) 2008, which introduced new measures for the protection of Hector's and Maui's dolphins.


Issued under the authority of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989.

Date of notification in Gazette: 23 October 2008.

These regulations are administered by the Ministry of Fisheries.