Fisheries (Bacalar Chico Marine Reserve) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. No. 132 of 2024)

BELIZE: FISHERIES (BACALAR CHICO MARINE RESERVE) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2024 ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS 1. Citation. 2. Amendment of regulation 3. 3. Amendment of regulation 5. 4. Amendment of regulation 6. 5. Amendment of regulation 7. Fisheries No. 132] Fisheries 1 Citation. Sub Leg, 2020 Edn. CAP. 210 p.220. BELIZE: STATUTORY INSTRUMENT No. 132 of 2024 REGULATIONS made by the Minister responsible for fisheries in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 17 of the Fisheries Resources Act, Chapter 210 of the Substantive Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, and all other power thereunto him enabling. (Gazetted 17th October, 2024). PART I Preliminary 1. These Regulations may be cited as the FISHERIES (BACALAR CHICO MARINE RESERVE) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 2024, and shall be read and construed as one with the Fisheries (Bacalar Chico Marine Reserve) Regulations, 2001, which are hereinafter referred to as the principal Regulations. 2. Regulation 3 of the principal Regulations is amended by repealing sub-regulation (1) and replacing it with the following– “3.–(1) For the purposes of the regulation and control of the Reserve, there is hereby established four zones within the Reserve as follows– (a) the General Use Zone; (b) the Conservation Zone I; (c) the Conservation Zone II; and (d) the Preservation Zone.” 3. Regulation 5 of the principal Regulations is amended– Amendment of regulation 3. Amendment of regulation 5. 2 Fisheries [No. 132 (a) in the marginal note, by deleting the words “Conservation I Zone” and substituting the words “Conservation Zone I”; and (b) by deleting the words “Conservation I Zone” and substituting the words “Conservation Zone I”. 4. Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations is amended– (a) in the marginal note, by deleting the words “Conservation II Zone” and substituting the words “Conservation Zone II”; and (b) by deleting the words “Conservation II Zone” and substituting the words “Conservation Zone II”. 5. Regulation 7 of the principal Regulations is amended in– (a) the marginal note, by deleting the words “Conservation I and II Zones” and substituting the words “Conservation Zones I and II”; (b) sub-regulation (1), by deleting the words “Conservation I and II Zones” and substituting the words “Conservation Zones I and II”; and (c) sub-regulation (2), by deleting the words “Conservation I and II Zones” and substituting the words “Conservation Zones I and II”. MADE by the Minister responsible for fisheries this 16th day of October, 2024. Amendment of regulation 6. Amendment of regulation 7. (HON. ABNER PEREZ) Minister of the Blue Economy and Disaster Risk Management (Minister responsible for fisheries) Printed in Belize by the Government Printer #1 Power Lane, Belmopan, Belize, C.A.