Fisheries & Aquatic Resources (Amendment) Act 2000

Official English translation. Where it differs from the Sinhala or Tamil text, the Act itself says which text prevails.

Changes to the law on fisheries and aquatic resources

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s 1Short title

This Act may be cited as the Fisheries and Aquatic

Resources (Amendment) Act, No. 4 of 2000.

s 2section 2 of Act No. 2 of 1996

Section 2 of the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Act,

No. 2 of 1996 (hereinafter referred to as the “principal enactment”) is hereby amened as follows :—

(1)

by the repeal of subsections (1), (2) and (3) of that section and the substitution therefor of the following subsections :—

“(1) There shall be appointed—

(a)

aperson, by name or by office, to be or to act as the

Director-General of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources

(hereinafter referred to as the “Director—General”) ;

(b)

one or more persons. by name or office, to be or to act as Director of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources;

and

(c)

such other officers as may from time to time be required for the purposes of this Act.

(2)

The Director-General shall be responsible for the administration and giving effect to the provisions of this Act.

(3)

Any person appointed under subsection (1) to be or to act as a Director of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources may, subject to the control of the Director-General, exercise all or any of the powers conferred upon the Director-General by or under this Act.” ; and

Amendment of

(2)

by the substitution for the marginal note to that section, of the following marginal note :—

“Appointment of

Director-General and other officers.”’.

Reference to the

s 3Every reference to the “ Director of Fisheries and

Director General.

Aquatic Resources ” or to the “ Director ” denoting the

Director of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources in the principal enactment or in any written law, notice, notification, communication or other document shall be read and construed as a reference respectively to the “ Director-General of

Fisheries and Aquatic Resources and the “Director - General”.

s 4Sinhala text to

Inthe event of any inconsistency between the Sinhala prevail in caseof and Tamil texts of this Act, the Sinhala text shall prevail.

inconsistency.