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3. Replacement to section 3 of the principal enactment

Official English translation. The Sinhala text prevails. Open the official Sinhala text, official PDF on documents.gov.lk

Section 3 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-

3. The administration, management and control of the affairs of the Authority shall be vested in a Board of Directors (hereinafter referred to as the “Board”) consisting of :—

(a)

five Directors appointed by the

Minister (hereinafter referred to as an “appointed Director”) from among persons of integrity, who have had wide experience and proven ability in the field of inland fisheries and aquaculture, science and technology, industry, commerce, finance, administration or law ; and

“Board of

Directors.

(b)

the following ex-officio Directors :-

(i)

the Director-General of

Fisheries and Aquatic

Resources ;

(ii)

the Chairman of the

Ceylon

Fisheries

Corporation, established under the State Industrial

Corporations, Act, No. 49

of 1957 ;

(iii)

the Chairman of the

Governing Board of the National Aquatic

Resoures Research and

Development Agency, established by the

National

Aquatic

Resources Research and

Development Agency Act,

No. 54 of 1981 ;

(iv)

an officer of the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of Finance, nominated by that

Minister ;

(v)

an officer of the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of Irrigation, nominated by that

Minister ;

(vi)

an officer of the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of Mahaweli

Development, nominated by that Minister ;

National Aquaculture Development Authority of

(vii)

an officer of the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of

Agriculture, nominated by that Minister ; and

(viii)

an officer of the Ministry of the Minister in charge of the subject of

Environment and Natural

Resources, nominated by that Minister .”.

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