Agency:
Department of Primary Industry
Agency Number:
Start Date:
17 Jul 1989
End Date:
18 Feb 1992
Description:
Provide expert advice, reports and policy recommendations to Government. Develop, review and administer legislation relating to plant and animal health and quality standards.Implement Government policy relating to living marine resources. Manage, control, regulate and protect sea fisheries, salmon fisheries and fisheries in land waters. Conduct scientific research, market research and consumer education. Provide extensions services, economic information and marketing advisory services and veterinary clinical services in areas not normally serviced by private practitioners. License and control commerical fish farms, eel fishing, whitebait fishing and the importation of fish into Tasmania. The Department was created, as part of a general re-organisation of the Tasmanian State Service, by amalgamating the Department of Agriculture and the Department of sea Fisheries on 17 Jul 1989. The Inland Fisheries Commission was amalgamated with the new Department on 1 Jul 1990. On the same day the Tasmanian Grain Elevators Board came under the administrative control of the Department. On 18 February 1992, following the change of government, the Inland Fisheries Commmission was transferred to the Department of Parks, Wildlife and Heritage and the Water Resources and Energy Resources Divisions of the Department of Resources and Energy were amalgamted with Primary Industry to create the Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Energy.
Legislation Administered:
Apiaries Act 1978, Apple and Pear Industry Acts 1982, Biological Control Act 1986, Dairy Produce Act 1932, fertilizers Act 1950, Filled Milk Act 1960, Fisheries Act 1959, Fisheries Development Act (Repeal) 1985, Fruit and Vegetables Act 1953, Grain Reserve Act 1950, Meat Hygiene Act 1985, Noxious Insects and Molluscs Act 1951, Noxious Weeds Act 1964, Pesticides Act 1968, Plant Diseases Act 1930, Potato Industry Act (Repeal) 1982, Salt Water Salmonid Culture Act 1985, Sea Fisheries Licence Act 1989, Seeds Act 1985, Soft Fruit Industry Act (Repeal) 1986, Stanley Cool Stores Act 1945, Stock Act 1932, Stock (Brands and Movement) Act 1984, Straits Islands Abbattoirs Act (Repeal) 1984, Vermin Destruction Act 1950, Veterinary Medicines Act 1987, Veterinary Surgeons Act 1987, Wheat Marketing Act 1985, Wheat Quotas Act 1969.
Legislation Creating:
Statutory Regulation 1989 No. 114
Functions Performed:
Primary industries
Controlled Agencies:
| Fruit Crop Insurance Committee (TA1982) | 01 Jan 1982 | 31 Dec 1999 |
| Tasmanian Grain Elevators Board (TA733) | 01 Jan 1950 | 31 Dec 2003 |
| Tasmanian Dairy Industry Authority (TA1096) | 01 Jan 1977 |
| Poppy Advisory and Control Board. (TA1108) | 01 Jan 1972 |
| Veterinary Board of Tasmania (TA1610) | 24 Dec 1918 |
| Inland Fisheries Commission (TA43) | 21 Aug 1959 | 15 Dec 1999 |
Controlling Agencies:
| Office of the Minister for Primary Industry (TA417) | 01 Jan 1976 |
Previous Agencies:
| Department of Agriculture (2) (TA370) | 01 Jan 1911 | 31 Dec 1989 |
| Department of Sea Fisheries (TA689) | 01 Jan 1985 | 17 Jul 1989 |
Subsequent Agencies:
| Department of Primary Industry, Fisheries and Energy (TA986) | 18 Feb 1992 | 03 Feb 1993 |
Series Created By Agency:
| AE799 Stock Registers from Northern Tasmanian Quarantine Stations | 01 Aug 1907 | 16 Aug 1994 |
| AD43 Launceston Office (Mt Pleasant Laboratories) - General Correspondence | 01 Jan 1923 | 31 Dec 1993 |
| AD670 Registers of Specimens sent to Animal Health Laboratories for Pathology Tests. | 13 Apr 1928 | 15 Feb 1995 |
| AD9 General Correspondence. | 01 Jan 1929 | 31 Dec 1991 |
| AC561 Oatlands District Office - Property Files. | 01 Jan 1930 | 31 Dec 1991 |
| AC582 Oatlands District Office - Subject Files. | 01 Jan 1936 | 31 Dec 1989 |
| AD766 Statistical Returns of Commercial Fisheries Production. | 01 Jan 1944 | 31 Dec 1992 |
| AC381 Nominal Register of Correspondence. | 01 Jan 1948 | 31 Dec 1992 |
| AD759 Applications and Correspondence for Commercial Abalone Licences. | 01 Jan 1960 | 31 Dec 1992 |
| AC814 General Correspondence. | 01 Jun 1961 | 31 Dec 1990 |
| AE290 General Correspondence - Sea Fisheries | 01 Oct 1967 | 31 Dec 1993 |
| AG150 Register of Crayfish Entitlements | 01 Jan 1973 | 31 Dec 2000 |
| AG156 Register of Entitlements for Commercial Abalone Licences | 01 Dec 1973 | 28 Feb 1993 |
| AG154 Register of Abalone Divers Unit Assignments | 01 Jan 1981 | 31 Dec 1999 |
| AE800 Research Notes and Correspondence about the History of Tasmanian Quarantine Stations, Compiled at the Mount Pleasant Veterinarian Laboratory in Kings Meadows. | 07 Jun 1984 | 23 Jun 1997 |
| AC380 Numerical Register of Correspondence, Tasdex Series. | 01 Jan 1986 | 31 Dec 1990 |
| AC152 General Correspondence, Tasdex Series. | 01 Jul 1986 | 31 Mar 1995 |
| AE400 Tasmanian Shellfish Sanitation Control Program - Tsscp - Part (1) and (2) | 01 Jan 1988 | 31 Dec 1989 |
| AG153 Registers of Abalone Divers | 01 Jan 1990 | 31 Dec 1992 |
| AG491 Registers of Abalone Quota Certificates | 01 Jan 1991 | 31 Dec 1992 |
| AG492 Abalone Quota Certificates | 01 Jan 1992 | 31 Dec 1992 |