Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move government amendment (1) on sheet BW262 and amendments (1) to (41) on sheet BW264 together:

(1) Schedule 1, item 1, page 4 (before line 29), before subsection 390SD(3), insert:

(2A) When making an interim declaration, the Minister may only specify a commercial fishing activity that had not been engaged in before 11 September 2012 in a Commonwealth marine area.

(1) Clause 1, page 1 (line 7), after "Declared", insert "Commercial".

(2) Schedule 1, heading, page 3 (line 1), after "Declared", insert "commercial".

(3) Schedule 1, item 1, page 3 (line 7), before "fishing activities", insert "commercial".

(4) Schedule 1, item 1, page 3 (line 8), before "fishing activities", insert "commercial".

(5) Schedule 1, item 1, page 3 (line 10), before "fishing activities", insert "commercial".

(6) Schedule 1, item 1, page 3 (line 11), after "declared", insert "commercial".

(7) Schedule 1, item 1, page 3 (line 19), before "fishing activities", insert "commercial".

(8) Schedule 1, item 1, page 3 (line 23), after "declared", insert "commercial".

(9) Schedule 1, item 1, page 4 (line 3), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(10) Schedule 1, item 1, page 4 (line 4), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(11) Schedule 1, item 1, page 4 (line 5), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(12) Schedule 1, item 1, page 4 (line 6), omit "declared fishing activity is a fishing activity", substitute "declared commercial fishing activity is a commercial fishing activity".

(13) Schedule 1, item 1, page 4 (after line 9), after subclause 390SC(1), insert:

(1A) A commercial fishing activity is a fishing activity that is engaged in for a commercial purpose, and, to avoid doubt, does not include an activity that constitutes recreational fishing (within the meaning of subsection 212(2)).

Note: Under subsection 212(2), recreational fishing includes fishing from a charter boat and fishing in a fishing competition.

(14) Schedule 1, item 1, page 4 (line 15), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(15) Schedule 1, item 1, page 4 (line 16), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(16) Schedule 1, item 1, page 4 (line 21), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(17) Schedule 1, item 1, page 5 (line 2), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(18) Schedule 1, item 1, page 5 (line 3), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(19) Schedule 1, item 1, page 5 (line 6), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(20) Schedule 1, item 1, page 5 (line 23), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(21) Schedule 1, item 1, page 5 (line 24), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(22) Schedule 1, item 1, page 5 (lines 30 and 31), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(23) Schedule 1, item 1, page 6 (line 3), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(24) Schedule 1, item 1, page 6 (line 9), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(25) Schedule 1, item 1, page 6 (line 17), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(26) Schedule 1, item 1, page 6 (line 18), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(27) Schedule 1, item 1, page 6 (line 23), omit "the fishing activity", substitute "the commercial fishing activity".

(28) Schedule 1, item 1, page 6 (line 23), omit "a fishing activity", substitute "a commercial fishing activity".

(29) Schedule 1, item 1, page 6 (line 27), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(30) Schedule 1, item 1, page 7 (line 3), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(31) Schedule 1, item 1, page 7 (line 7), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(32) Schedule 1, item 1, page 7 (line 9), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(33) Schedule 1, item 1, page 8 (lines 4 and 5), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(34) Schedule 1, item 1, page 8 (line 8), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(35) Schedule 1, item 1, page 8 (line 9), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(36) Schedule 1, item 1, page 8 (line 12), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(37) Schedule 1, item 1, page 8 (line 15), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(38) Schedule 1, item 2, page 10 (line 2), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(39) Schedule 1, item 3, page 10 (lines 7 and 8), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

(40) Schedule 1, page 10 (after line 8), after item 3, insert:

3A Section 528

Insert:

commercial fishing activity has the meaning given by subsection 390SC(1A).

(41) Schedule 1, item 5, page 10 (line 15), before "fishing activity", insert "commercial".

As I referred to in my closing remarks in the second reading debate, these are the amendments that guarantee that all existing commercial fishing activity which had been engaged in before 11 September, when this bill was introduced, remains not subject to interim declarations, and that recreational fishing, whether it be purely recreational or whether it be charter recreational activity, is clearly not part of the bill before the House.

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