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Statutory Rules
1980 No. 13
REGULATIONS UNDER THE FISHERIES ACT 19521
I, THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL of the Commonwealth of Australia, acting with the advice of the Federal Executive Council, hereby make the following Regulations under the Fisheries Act 1952.
Dated this thirtieth day of January 1980.
ZELMAN COWEN
Governor-General
By His Excellency’s Command,
PETER MIXON
Minister of State for Primary Industry
 
Amendments of the Fisheries Regulations2
Short method of reference to “authorized areas”
          1.   Regulation 21 of the Fisheries Regulations is amended —
                (a)    by inserting in paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) “comprising the Australian fishing zone” after “waters” (first occurring);
               (b)    by omitting from paragraph (a) of sub-regulation (2) “and” (last occurring);
                (c)    by inserting in paragraph (b) of sub-regulation (2) “in the Australian fishing zone” after “waters”; and
               (d)    by adding at the end of sub-regulation (2) the following word and paragraph:
               “; and (c) a reference to ‘the authorized area of the Australian fishing zone for Taiwanese vessels’ is the short method of reference to the area of proclaimed waters in the Australian fishing zone specified in Schedule 4.”.
Schedule 4
          2.   The Fisheries Regulations are amended by adding at the end thereof the following Schedule:
                                                    Schedule 4                                    Regulation 21
AUTHORIZED AREA OF THE AUSTRALIAN FISHING ZONE FOR TAIWANESE VESSELS
 
The area of the Australian fishing zone generally north and west of an imaginary line commencing at the point to the west of Australia on the parallel 21º south latitude that is 200 nautical miles seaward of the baseline from which the outer limits of the Australian fishing zone are measured; thence east along that parallel to its intersection with an imaginary line on which every point is 12 nautical miles seaward of that baseline; thence north-easterly along that imaginary line to its intersection with the meridian 117º east longitude; thence north along that meridian to its intersection with the parallel 20º south latitude; thence northerly and easterly along an imaginary line on which every point is 25 nautical miles seaward of that baseline to the intersection of that imaginary line with the meridian 123º east longitude; thence south along that meridian to its intersection with an imaginary line on which every point is 12 nautical miles seaward of that baseline; thence northerly and easterly along that imaginary line to its intersection with the meridian 129º 55' east longitude; thence north along that meridian to its intersection with the parallel 10º 30' south latitude; thence east along that parallel to its intersection with the meridian 133º east longitude; thence south along that meridian to its intersection with an imaginary line every point on which is 12 nautical miles seaward of that baseline; thence easterly along that imaginary line to the first intersection of that imaginary line with a straight imaginary line between the intersection of the parallel 11º 52' south latitude with the meridian 136º 33' east longitude at Cape Wilberforce in the Northern Territory and the intersection of the parallel 10º 59' south latitude with the meridian 142º 08' east longitude at Slade Point in Queensland; thence easterly along that imaginary line to its intersection with the meridian 141º east longitude; thence north along that meridian to its intersection with the parallel 10º 22' 44" south latitude.
NOTES
1.       Notified in the Commonwealth of Australia Gazette on 4 February 1980.
2.       Statutory Rules 1954 No. 116 as amended by Statutory Rules 1968 Nos. 7 and 143; 1974 Nos. 211 and 212; 1975 No. 69; 1976 No. 173; 1979 Nos. 187 and 235.