Marine Spaces (Foreign Fishing Vessels) (Amendment) Regulations (L.N. No. 71 of 2010)

IN exeretee of the powers conferred on me by Section 22 of the Marine Spaces Act. C8pIS8A, I hereby make these Regulationt Cftallotl AII4ComtMutt:U/lW 1.-(i) --TheseRegulatiOl1S maybocited8li theMartneSpaces(Foreign FishingVessels) (Amendment) Regulations 2010, (li) These Regulations are deemed to have come into effect on 1st January 2010. 225 I· ) i~' 'l . FI~ I.SLANDSGOVERNMENT GAZETTE li'iUDAY,9thJULY' (LBOAL NOTICB No. 71] .MARINBSPACBSACT (CAP.IS8A) >";;-11. Marine Spaces (Foreign Fishing v: (Amendment) Regulations 2010 201. ) N.wRqMIatI,," In.nrlUJ 2. The MarineSpaces(ForeignFishingVessels) (Amendment) Regulations2002 is amended by inserting anew sub regulation after Regulation 328 sub regulation (5) A~ QtIi: /oNl1""", I""lor "328 (6) (i) No.twithatandingthe requlrements for the automatic location communicatorto be registeredwith FFAsuch requirements will not apply to Fiji flagged vesselsthat are (a) whollyowned by Fiji nationalsand its fishing ope.ration Is confined to PijVsarchipelagic wateI1l ,and12mile territorialseas; and (b) having less than 4Om' fish holdc~l~ endU~ lees than 2, 500 hooksper set. (il) The OWneIS of the Fiji Flaggedvessels are to install a vesselmonitoring syltem of their own and allow the Director of Fisheries free access to the company.VCSlle1monitoring system data at all times with no cost to Government.' (iii) F~ to complywithSUb-regulation (ii) wiUresultinthe ownerof the fishing veaae! having10fully complywith FFAregistrationrequirements:' Datedat SUva this 1stday of January2010. I.KUBUABOLA Ministerfur PoreignAffairs, International Co-opereuon and CivilAviation '. \