Senate debates

Tuesday, 11 November 2008

Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2008

In Committee

5:02 pm

Photo of Jan McLucasJan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

If a person is fishing in a green zone and the enforcement officer is of the view that that person is in the wrong place, they will report it to the DPP. The DPP will make an assessment and pursue charges on the basis, initially, of the zoning plan. Subsequent to that, if the person is guilty of fishing in a green zone—and I use that term in the broadest sense because of the infringement notice opportunity, whether the person has a previous record and a whole range of things to be put into that if the person has been found to be guilty—then there is an opportunity, if the person is deemed to be fishing in a commercial nature, for this definition to be instigated.

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