Lavender v Director of Fisheries Compliance, Department of Industry Skills and Regional Development [2018] NSWCA 174

Court of Appeal Supreme Court New South Wales Medium Neutral Citation: Lavender v Director of Fisheries Compliance, Department of Industry Skills and Regional Development [2018] NSWCA 174 Hearing dates: 6 March 2018 Date of orders: 08 August 2018 Decision date: 08 August 2018 Before: Bathurst CJ at [1]; Beazley P at [67]; Basten JA at [69] Decision: Summons dismissed with costs. Catchwords: CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – legislation and legislative powers – extraterritorial operation of legislation – whether the Fisheries Management Act 1994 (NSW) and Fisheries Management (Abalone Share Management Plan) Regulation 2000 (NSW) invalid

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – operation and effect of the Commonwealth Constitution – inconsistency of laws (Constitution, s 109) – whether Fisheries Management Act 1994 (NSW) and Fisheries Management (Abalone Share Management Plan) Regulation 2000 (NSW) inconsistent with Commonwealth legislation

CONSTITUTIONAL LAW - operation and effect of the Commonwealth Constitution – alteration of limits of States (Constitution, s 123) – whether Fisheries Management (Abalone Share Management Plan) Regulation 2000 (NSW) alters the limits of New South Wales Legislation Cited: Application of Laws (Coastal Sea) Act 1980 (NSW), ss 3, 4, 5 Australia Act 1986 (Cth) Australia Act 1986 (UK), s 2 Coastal Waters (State Powers) Act 1980 (Cth), ss 3, 4,5,7 Coastal Waters (State Title) Act 1980 (Cth), ss 4, 8 Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK), s 7 Constitution Act 1902 (NSW), s 5 Constitution, ss 51, 52, 90, 109, 123 Convention on the Territorial Sea and the Contiguous Zone, 29 April 1958, Arts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 Cornwall Submarine Mines Act 1858, 21 & 22 Vict, c. 109, s 2 Fisheries Act 1865 (NSW) Fisheries Act 1881 (NSW) Fisheries Act 1902 (NSW), s 3 Fisheries Act 1905 (WA) Fisheries Act 1952 (Cth), s 12H Fisheries Act 1982 (SA) Fisheries Amendment Act 1980 (Cth) Fisheries and Oyster Farms (Commonwealth-State Arrangements) Amendment Act 1982 (NSW) Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 1935 (NSW), s 4H Fisheries Legislation (Consequential Provisions) Act 1991 (Cth), s 7 Fisheries Management (Abalone Share Management Plan) Regulation 2000 (NSW), cll 2, 30, 38 Fisheries Management Act 1991 (Cth), s 74; Pt 5 Fisheries Management Act 1994 (NSW), ss 7, 42, 60, 66, 68, 102, 112, 135, 136, 243, 247; Pt 3; Sch 1, item 4 Interpretation Act 1987 (NSW), ss 12, 58, 59; Pt 10 Navigation Act 1912 (Cth) Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967 (Cth) Sea Fisheries Regulations 1962 (Tas) Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 (Cth), ss 6, 7, 10, 11, 14, 16; Pt 2, Divs 1, 2, 3 Territory Waters Jurisdiction Act 1878, 41 & 42 Vict, c 73 Cases Cited: Attorney General v Sir John Constable (1575) 1 And 86 Babington v Commonwealth (2016) 240 FCR 495; [2016] FCAFC 45 Barcelo v Electrolytic Zinc Company of Australasia Ltd (1932) 48 CLR 391; [1932] HCA 52 Bonser v La Macchia (1969) 122 CLR 177; [1969] HCA 31 Colbeam Palmer Ltd v Stock Affiliates Pty Ltd (1968) 122 CLR 25; [1968] HCA 50 Commonwealth v WMC Resources Ltd (1998) 194 CLR 1; [1998] HCA 8 Commonwealth v Yarmirr (2001) 208 CLR 1; [2001] HCA 56 Ex parte Emerson (1898) 15 WN (NSW) 101 Goodman v Mayor of Saltash (1882) 7 App Cas 633 Harper v Minister for Sea Fisheries (1989) 168 CLR 314; [1989] HCA 47 ICM Agriculture Pty Ltd v The Commonwealth (2009) 240 CLR 140; [2009] HCA 51 Lazarus v Independent Commission Against Corruption (2017) 94 NSWLR 36; [2017] NSWCA 37 Lord Provost and Magistrates of Glasgow v Farie (1888) 13 App Cas 657 Macleod v Attorney General for New South Wales [1891] AC 455 Meyer Heine Pty Ltd v China Navigation Co Ltd (1966) 115 CLR 10; [1966] HCA 11 Minister for the Army v Dalziel (1944) 68 CLR 261; [1944] HCA 4 Morgan v White (1912) 15 CLR 1; [1912] HCA 50 New South Wales v Commonwealth (1975) 135 CLR 337; [1975] HCA 58 Newcastle Wallsend Coal Co Pty Ltd v Industrial Relations Commission of NSW [2006] NSWCA 129 Pearce v Florenca (1976) 135 CLR 507; [1976] HCA 26 Port MacDonnell Professional Fishermen's Association Inc v South Australia (1989) 168 CLR 340; [1989] HCA 49 R v Keyn (1876) 2 Ex D 63 Robinson v Western Australian Museum (1977) 138 CLR 283; [1977] HCA 46 Union Steamship Co of Australia Ltd v King (1988) 166 CLR 1; [1988] HCA 55 Yanner v Eaton (1999) 201 CLR 351; [1999] HCA 53 Texts Cited: Geoffrey Marston, The Marginal Seabed: United Kingdom Legal Practice, Clarendon Press Oxford, 1981 J Quick and R Garran, The Annotated Constitution of the Australian Commonwealth (1901) A Twomey, The Australia Acts 1986 – Australia's Statutes of Independence (The Federation Press, 2010) Category: Principal judgment Parties: Ralph Lavender (first applicant) Jack Lavender (second applicant) Director of Fisheries Compliance, Department of Industry Skills and Regional Development (first respondent) District Court of New South Wales (second respondent) Local Court of New South Wales (third respondent) Minister administering Fisheries Management Act 1994 (NSW) (fourth respondent) State of New South Wales (fifth respondent) Representation: Counsel: P E King (applicants) J S Emmett (first, fourth and fifth respondents)