As enacted

Contents

3. Amendment of section 3 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails.

Section 3 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section as follows:—

(1)

by the repeal of paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (e) of that subsection and the substitution therefor of the following paragraphs:—

“(b)

the Director-General;

(c)

the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister of the Board of Minsters of every province to whom the subject of fisheries has been assigned;

(d)

the Chairman of the Council of the National

Institute of Fisheries and Nautical

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Engineering, established under the National

Institute of Fisheries and Nautical

Engineering Act, No. 36 of 1999;

(e)

the Director of Planning and Monitoring of the Ministry of Fisheries, who shall be the

Secretary of the Council;”;

(2)

by the repeal of paragraphs (i) and (j) of that subsection and the substitution therefor of the following paragraphs:—

“(i)

the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister to whom the subject of Environment is assigned, or his nominee;

(j)

the Director-General of the Coast

Conservation and Coastal Resource

Management Department, established under

Coast Conservation and Coastal Resource

Management Act, No. 57 of 1981;”; and

(3)

by the insertion, immediately after paragraph (j)

of that subsection, of the following paragraphs:—

“(ja)

the Chairman of the National Aquaculture

Development Authority of Sri Lanka established under the National Aquaculture

Development Authority of Sri Lanka Act, No.

53 of 1998;

(jb)

the Director-General (Technical) of the

Ministry of Fisheries;

(jc)

the Director-General of the Department of

Coast Guard, established under the Department of Coast Guard Act, No. 41 of 2009;

(jd)

the Conservator-General of Forests, appointed under the Forest Conservation

Ordinance (Chapter 451);

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(je)

the Commissioner-General of Agrarian

Development, appointed under the Agrarian

Development Act, No. 46 of 2000;

(jf)

the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister to whom the subject of Irrigation has been assigned, or his nominee;

(jg)

the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister to whom the subject of Wild Life

Conservation has been assigned, or his nominee;

(jh)

the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister to whom the subject of River Basins has been assigned, or his nominee;

(ji)

the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister to whom the subject of Land has been assigned, or his nominee;

(jj)

the Secretary to the Ministry of the Minister to whom the subject of Tourism has been assigned, or his nominee;

(jk)

the President of the All Ceylon Madel Owners

Fisheries Co-operative Society Limited, registered under the Co-operative Societies

Law, No. 5 of 1972;

(jl)

the Chairman of National Fisheries

Federation;

(jm)

two persons engaged in fishing, nominated by the National Fisheries Federation of

Fisheries Organizations;

(jn)

two persons engaged in fishing nominated by the Multi Day Fishing Boat Owners

Association;”.

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