33 tal-2014 - Regolamenti tal-2014 li jemendaw ir-Regolamenti dwar il-Bastiment tas-Sajd

L.N. 33 of 2014

FISHERIES CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT

(CAP. 425)

Fishing Vessels (Amendment) Regulations, 2014

BY VIRTUE of the powers granted by article 38 of the Fisheries

Conservation and Management Act, the Minister for Sustainable

Development, the Environment and Climate Change has made the

following regulations:-

The title of these regulations is Fishing Vessels Citation.

(Amendment) Regulations, 2014 and these regulations shall be read

and construed as one with the Fishing Vessels Regulations, S.L. 425.07

hereinafter referred to as "the principal regulations".

Regulation 3 of the principal regulations shall be amended Amends

regulation 3 of

as follows

the principal

regulations.

(a)

paragraph (a) thereof shall be substituted by the

following

"(a) Vessels which from their very nature or from

other factors lead the Director to believe that their primary

and predominant use is for fishing may be registered by the

Director in the Fishing Vessel Register and, once so

registered so that they can be so used, shall have a licence

according to the relevant provisions of the law

Provided that, without prejudice to regulation 9,

the Director shall not register or renew any registration

with respect to any vessel falling under category C

described under regulation 8(b) if the same vessel is of a

length of 12 metres or more, and with effect from the 1st

January 2014 he shall also cancel all registrations under

category C which are in force on the same date.";

(b)

paragraph (c) thereof shall be substituted by the

following

"(c) The issued licence shall be kept on board of

the fishing vessel at all times. Fishing vessels of any

category may only be used for the purposes indicated in

the licence

Provided that a fishing vessel may only be used for

a secondary purpose if a request is made in writing and

beforehand to the Director and this is approved in

accordance with those conditions that the Director may

prescribe, with the understanding that nothing herein

provided shall hinder in any way the Director from

suspending, revoking or changing said approval as he may

deem fit."; and

(c)

paragraph (d) thereof shall be repealed.

The table in Schedule II to the principal regulations shall

be amended in such manner so that the categories and length marked

"C REC 12.00 - 14.99 Mt" and "C REC 15.00 - 29.99 Mt" in the first,

second and third columns thereof shall read "Not Registered" in the

fourth column thereof, and the words and figures "€104.82 annually"

and "€151.41 annually" respectively in fifth column thereof shall be

€0.18