Fishing Vessels (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

L.N. 158 of 2020

FISHERIES CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT ACT

(CAP. 425)

Fishing Vessels (Amendment) Regulations, 2020

IN EXERCISE of the powers conferred by article 38 of the

Fisheries Conservation and Management Act, the Minister for

Agriculture, Fisheries and Animal Rights, has made the following

regulations:-

The title of these regulations is the Fishing Vessels

(Amendment) Regulations, 2020 and these regulations shall be read

and construed as one with the Fishing Vessels Regulations, hereinafter

referred to as the "principal regulations".

Regulation 13 of the principal regulations shall be

substituted by the following

(1) Without prejudice to other obligations

fishing licence

according to law, the Director shall update the fishing

licence details of a registered fishing vessel upon receiving

a joint written request from the fishing licence holder and

an ascendant or descendant up to the first degree, whether

by consanguinity or affinity, who shall be registered as the

new fishing licence holder in accordance with said request

Provided that, without prejudice to any

impediment according to law, upon giving effect to said

update the fishing vessel may be used by the new fishing

licence holder according to its fishing licence and the law.

(2) Any update done according to sub-regulation

(1) shall be made at no expense for the applicants.".

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