Commentary on provisions of Act Miscellaneous Section 43: Agency arrangements between sea fish licensing authorities
This section permits the establishment of agency arrangements between the four sea fish licensing authorities in relation to the functions listed under subsection (1), which are their fisheries and product movement functions.
	Subsection (2) confirms that such arrangements do not affect an authority’s responsibility for the exercise of the function.
	Subsection (3) provides that an authority may charge another authority a reasonable fee relating to the costs of providing the functions in subsection (1).
	Subsection (4) confirms that the functions under subsection (1) that may be the subject of an agency arrangement do not include the functions of making, confirming or approving subordinate legislation.
	Subsection (5) provides that the power to make agency arrangements does not affect any other powers of an authority to make arrangements with other persons to carry out those functions on its behalf (e.g. contractors or other public bodies).
	Subsection (5) defines "fisheries function" and "product movement function" for the purposes of this section.