Commercial Fishing Environmental Impact Statement Arrangements 2001 (2001-229) (NSW)

2001 No 229

New South Wales

Commercial Fishing Environmental Impact Statement Arrangements 2001

under the

Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979

I, the Minister for Fisheries, in pursuance of Division 5 of Part 5 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, make the following arrangements.

The Hon EDWARD OBEID, M.L.C.,

Minister for Fisheries

Published in Gazette No 59 of 23 March 2001, page 1567 Page 1 [8]

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Commercial Fishing Environmental Impact Statement Arrangements 2001

Name of arrangements

These arrangements are the Commercial Fishing Environmental Impact Statement Arrangements 2001.

Definitions

(1) In these arrangements:

(2)

designated commercial fishing activity means a fishing activity described in item 1 of Schedule 1A to the Fisheries Management Act 1994.

Director means the Director of NSW Fisheries.

proponent of a designated fishing activity has the meaning given by paragraph (a) of the definition of proponent in section 115G of the Act.

the Act means the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979.

Words and expressions used in these arrangements and also in the Fisheries Management Act 1994 have the meaning given to them by that Act.

Preparation of environmental impact statements

For the purposes of section 115K (4) of the Act, the Director is engaged to be responsible for the preparation of environmental impact statements in respect of designated commercial fishing activities.

4 Information and investigations

The proponents of a designated commercial fishing activity are required to provide such information, and to carry out such investigations, in connection with the environmental impact statement as the Director may require.

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