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11. Replacement of Section 37 of the principal enactment

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

Section 37 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :—

37. (1) The Minister may make regulations in respect of any matter required by this Act to be prescribed or in respect of which regulations are authorized by this Act to be made.

(2)

In particular and without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred by subsection (1), the Minister may make regulations in respect of all or any of the following matters :—

“Regulations.

(a)

the manner of affording protection to aquatic-medium ;

(b)

the manner in which aquaculture operations in inland water are to be conducted ;

(c)

the measures to be taken and the procedures to be adopted in the management, regulation, conservation and development of aquaculture ;

(d)

the collection of statistics and the manner in which persons who are engaged in fishing, marketing or processing of aquaculture operations may forward their information ; and

(e)

the prohibition of the use of any specific equipment, device, method or substance for the purpose of or connected with the taking of fish and other aquatic resources for aquaculture and the regulation of the time and manner of taking of fish and other aquatic resources in inland waters.

(3)

Every regulation made by the Minister shall be published in the Gazette and shall come into operation on the date of such publication or on such later date as may be specified in such regulation.

(4)

Every regulation made by the Minister shall as soon as convenient after its publication in the Gazette, be brought before

Parliament for approval. Any regulation which

National Aquaculture Development Authority of is not so approved shall be deemed to be rescinded as from the date of such disapproval, but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder.

(5)

Notification of the date on which any regulation made by the Minister is deemed to be rescinded, shall be published in the Gazette.