South Australian Current Regulations

AQUACULTURE REGULATIONS 2016

- under the Aquaculture Act 2001

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   3.      Interpretation
   4.      Approvals by Minister

   PART 2--General provisions supporting Act

   4B.     Meaning of variation of licence conditions
   5.      Procedures for making aquaculture policies
   6.      Certain amendments may be made by Gazette notice only
   7.      Reference of matters to EPA
   8.      Aquaculture Fund
   9.      Fisheries officers and their powers

   PART 3--Regulation of licensed activities

           Division 1--General requirements

   10.     Use of chemical substances
   11.     Aquaculture waste
   12.     Recovery of aquaculture equipment or waste blown, washed or swept off-site
   13.     Notification of unusually high mortality rate and duty to isolate unaffected organisms
   14.     Control of aquatic organisms affected with disease
   15.     Stock register
   16.     Periodic returns

           Division 2--Additional requirements relating to aquaculture in State waters

              Subdivision 1--Application of Division

   17.     Application of Division

              Subdivision 2--Aquaculture strategies

   18.     Aquaculture strategies
   19.     Sector-based aquaculture strategies
   20.     Individual aquaculture strategies
   21.     Aquaculture strategies may be subject to urgent amendment without prior notice or consultation

              Subdivision 3--Environmental reporting

   22.     Annual reporting on general environmental matters
   23.     Periodic reporting on aquatic environment

              Subdivision 4--Miscellaneous

   24.     Marking-off lease areas
   24A.    Navigational markers
   25.     Farming structures
   26.     Notification of escape of stock or damage that may lead to escape of stock
   27.     Notification of entanglement or confinement of protected animals

           Division 3--Additional requirements relating to aquaculture not in State waters

   28.     Application of Division
   29.     Annual reporting on general environmental matters
   30.     Periodic reporting on aquatic environment

           Division 4--Exemptions from environmental reporting requirements

   31.     Exemptions from environmental reporting requirements

   PART 3A--Regulation of aquaculture tourism development activities

   31A.    Aquaculture tourism waste
   31B.    Recovery of aquaculture tourism equipment or waste blown, washed or swept off-site
   31C.    Stock register
   31D.    Control of aquatic organisms affected with disease
   31E.    Notification of unusually high mortality rate and duty to isolate unaffected organisms
   31F.    Notification of entanglement or confinement of protected animals
   31G.    Mitigation of impacts on and interactions with seabirds and large marine vertebrates
   31H.    Power to require or carry out work

   PART 4--Division and amalgamation of lease areas and licence areas

   32.     Division of production lease area
   33.     Amalgamation of production lease areas
   34.     Division of licence area
   35.     Amalgamation of licence areas
   36.     Minister may require further information

   PART 5--Miscellaneous

   37.     Classification of licences as category A, B, C or D and classification of variations of licence conditions as simple, standard or complex
   38.     Fee payable on grant of aquaculture licence
   39.     Annual fees for licences
   41.     Waiver or refund of fees
   42.     Recovery of fees etc
   43.     Defects in applications
   44.     Exemption from requirement for licence under section 17 of Act
   45.     Exemption from requirement for ATAB to assess certain applications under section 36 of Act
           SCHEDULE 2--Revocation and transitional provisions
           Legislative history