Fishing Vessels (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

L.N. 313 of 2008

FISHERIES CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT

(CAP. 425)

Fishing Vessels (Amendment) Regulations, 2008

IN exercise of the powers conferred by article 38 of the Fisheries

Conservation and Management Act, the Minister for Resources and

Rural Affairs, has made the following regulations>

The title of these regulations is the Fishing Vessels Title.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2008 and they shall be read and construed

as one with the Fishing Vessels Regulation, 2004, hereinafter referred L.N. 407 of 2004.

to as “the principal regulations”.

For regulation 5 of the principal regulations there shall be Substitutes

regulation 5 of the

substituted the following>

principal

regulations.

(1) The owner or charterer or captain of a fishing

vessel shall apply for the registration and licensing of such

vessel using the form indicated in Schedule I. This form shall

be accompanied by the following documents>-

(a) a certificate indicating the tonnage and length

of the vessel and it shall be issued in accordance with

the related requirements of the Merchant Shipping Act Cap. 234.

and all regulations relative to tonnage made thereunder<

(b) a survey report of the fishing vessel<

(c) the deed or instrument of incorporation of the

company or body corporate owning the fishing vessel in

the event that ownership belongs to such company or

body corporate<

(d) three photographs of the fishing vessel< and

(e) two photographs and a copy of the Identity

Card of the physical person submitting the application.

(2) The Director shall only register a fishing

vessel in the Fishing Vessels Register upon submission of a

formal application accompanied with all the documents

mentioned in sub-regulation (1) hereof>

Provided that at any stage between the submission

of an application and the registration of the fishing vessel,

the Director may issue to the applicant a non operational

temporary registration certificate which shall be effective

only until such time as any other registration procedure

which is required according to the Merchant Shipping

Act is concluded.

(3) The owner and, or captain or master of the

fishing vessel shall be resident in Malta in terms of the

provisions of the Immovable Property (Acquisition by Non-

Residents) Act.

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