FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE SERVICES PAYMENTS REGULATIONS

FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE SERVICES PAYMENTS

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 425.05

FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE SERVICES

PAYMENTS REGULATIONS

4th June, 1991

LEGAL NOTICE 83 of 1991, as amended by Legal Notice 426 of 2007;

Act XIII of 2015; and Legal Notice 344 of 2015 and 431 of 2020.

The title of these regulations is Fisheries and Aquaculture

Services Payments Regulations.

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires -

"Act" means the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act;

"Department" means the Fisheries and Aquaculture Department;

and

"Director" means the most senior public officer appointed by the

Prime Minister who is not a Permanent Secretary and who has

responsibility for the management and conservation of fisheries

and aquaculture.

When any service by a Fisheries Officer is given outside

the precincts of the Department or outside the normal working

hours of the Department, there shall be paid to the Director, on his

demand, by the person at whose request such service is given, a

charge equivalent to the overtime rate which is calculated at such

rates as the Government from time to time pays to such officers for

similar attendances for overtime, together with an administrative

charge of five and a half per cent calculated on the overall charge

and expenses, if any

Provided that where the duration of such service by an

officer of the Department is of less than two hours, the charge shall

be calculated at a minimum equivalent of two whole hours.

When the attendance of a Fisheries Officer is required at

any place, unless the person requesting such an attendance provides

satisfactory transport -

(a) when a route bus service is available, there shall be

made a charge for transport at the current fares for

such service;

(b) when a route bus service is not available, there shall be

made a charge for transport at the rate of 31c per

kilometre.

Where -

(a) a Fisheries Officer attends to his duties at a place

situated more than five kilometres away from his

station; or

(b) the duties of a Fisheries Officer exceed five hours in

duration; or

FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE SERVICES PAYMENTS

(c) there is no route bus service between the place of

attendance and the station of the Fisheries Officer,

a subsistence charge shall be made from the person requesting such

service at the rates applicable by Government to such officers for

similar attendances.

Any payment referred to in these regulations shall be made

to the Director and the same payment shall be in favour of the

Director, without prejudice to those contractual arrangements

relating to the contracts of service of fisheries protection officers

Provided that, the Director may delegate the receipt and

processing of payments to a public officer as may be indicated by

notice in the Gazette.