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Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Act 1996 - Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone (Beveridge Reef) Regulations 1997

NIUE

TERRITORIAL SEA AND EXCLUSIVE ECONOMIC ZONE
(BEVERIDGE REEF) REGULATIONS 1997

At the Cabinet Chambers this 27th day of September 1997

PURSUANT to section 60 of the Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Act 1996 the Cabinet makes the following regulations:

1 Citation

(1) These regulations may be cited as the Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone (Beveridge Reef) Regulations 1997.

2 Interpretation

(1) In these Regulations, unless the contrary intention appears-

"Beveridge Reef Designated Fishery" means the fishery designated in accordance with section 12 of the Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone on 27 September 1997;

"reef” includes bommie fields, reef slopes, moats and ramparts.

(2) If a penalty is set out at the foot of a regulation or subregulation it means that a contravention of the regulation or subregulation whether by act or omission is an offence punishable by a fine not exceeding the amount stated.

3 Protection of Beveridge Reef Designated Fishery

(1) A person must not knowingly destroy or damage a reef within the Beveridge Reef Designated Fishery except with and in accordance with the approval of an authorised officer.

Penalty: Fine not exceeding 2,500 penalty units.

BEVERIDGE REEF DESIGNATED FISHERY NOTICE

The Cabinet, being satisfied that it is in the national interest to ensure the conservation and efficient use of the fishery in the region of Beveridge Reef, acting pursuant to section 12 of the Territorial Sea and Exclusive Economic Zone Act 1996 declares the fishery in the area described in the Schedule to this notice to be a designated fishery.

Schedule

(1) All that area known as Beveridge Reef lying approximately 128 nautical miles South East of Niue at bearing 20°00 South 167°46 West together with the area having as its inner limit the low-water mark along the outer edge of Beveridge Reef and, as its outer limit, a line measured seaward from that low-water mark every point of which is distant 12 nautical miles from the nearest point of that low-water mark.

(2) For the purpose of paragraph (1) low-water mark shall be taken to extend across any access to the lagoon of Beveridge Reef.

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