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Fish Marketing Act 1994.

Country/Territory
Australia
Territorial subdivision
New South Wales
Document type
Legislation
Date
1994 (1999)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Long title
An Act to authorise the sale of the business undertaking of the Fish Marketing Authority; to deregulate fish marketing in New South Wales; and to amend the Fisheries and Oyster Farms Act 1935 and certain other Acts.
Subject
Food & nutrition, Fisheries
Keyword
Institution Non-governmental entity Internal trade Business/industry/corporations Food quality control/food safety Fish products
Geographical area
Asia and the Pacific, Australia and New Zealand, Indian Ocean, Oceania, South Pacific
Abstract

The text of the 25 sections are divided into 4 Parts: Preliminary (I); Sale of business undertaking of Fish Marketing Authority (II); Deregulation of fish marketing (III) Miscellaneous (IV). Part 2 is divided into 3 divisions: The sale (1); Dissolution of FMA and other consequential provisions (2); Provisions relating to transfers of business undertaking (3).The fish marketing undertaking of the Authority (FMA) is transferred to a private company and various consequential measures are provided for. FMA is dissolved immediately after the sale date. The purpose of Part III is to remove, on the deregulation date, the regulatory controls imposed by the Fisheries Act on fish marketing in New South Wales.

Full text
English
Website
www.austlii.edu.au