MARINE VEGETATION LICENCE REGULATIONS

MARINE VEGETATION LICENCE

SUBSIDIARY LEGISLATION 425.06

MARINE VEGETATION LICENCE REGULATIONS

23rd May, 1997

LEGAL NOTICE 66 of 1997, as amended by Legal Notice 426 of 2007

and Act XIII of 2015.

The title of these regulations is Marine Vegetation Licence

Regulations.

In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise

requires -

"Act" means the Fisheries Conservation and Management Act;

"catching" includes cultivation;

"Fisheries Department" means the Department of Fisheries and

Aquaculture;

"fishing" and "fishing boat" have the same meaning as is given to

them in the Act;

"plants" and "plants found in the sea" include all types of marine

vegetation.

A fee of one hundred and twenty-eight euro and twenty

cents (€128.20) shall be paid shall be paid by a person engaged in

fishing and in the cultivation of marine plants to the Fisheries

Department for the granting of a licence, and for the renewal

thereof each year thereafter, to use a fishing boat for the purpose of

catching every description of plants found in the sea within such

area of the bays or of the territorial waters of Malta as may be

designated in the licence.

(1) No person shall cultivate or catch plants, or use a

fishing boat for such purpose, unless he has been issued with, and

is in possession of, a valid licence in terms of regulation 3.

(2) Any person who contravenes the provisions of these

regulations shall, on conviction, be liable to a fine (multa) of two

hundred and thirty-two euro and ninety-four cents (€232.94).