9. Directions

The Director may issue directions in writing in relation to the proper management of fisheries to be complied with by every person to whom they are applicable.

Such directions may be displayed in such public places and for such period as the Director may determine.

Without prejudice to the generality of subsections (1) and (2), the direction referred to in those subsections may include a direction that no application for a licence are to be made in relation to the area, species or ecological community to which any fisheries plan referred to in section 5 is proposed to relate during the period beginning on the date of publication in the Gazette of the direction and ending —