Fisheries (Clam) (Amendment) Regulation 2014 (L.N. No. 10 of 2014)

[Legal Notice No. 10] 30 THE FISHERIES ACT 1998 (No.6 of 1998) THE FISHERIES (CLAM) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2014 IN exercise of the powers conferred by section 25 and 59 of the Fisheries Act 1998, I, ALFRED GHIRO, MP, Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources, do hereby make the following regulations: 1. This Regulation may be cited as the Fisheries (Clam) (Amendment) Regulation 2014, and shall come into operation on the date of the publication in the Gazette. 2. The Fisheries Regulations 1972, is hereby amended by deleting Regulation 15 of the Fisheries Regulations 1972 and substituting with the following: "15(1) Any person who, damages, harvest from the wild, retain or in possession of, or buys for sale or export any clam meat or clam products of the genus Tridacna and Hippopus, shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine of 5,000 penalty units or imprisonment for five months, or to both such fine and imprisonment. (2) Regulation 15(1) shall not apply to dead clam shells. (3) A person may apply to the Director for a Dead Clamshell Export Permit for the export of dead clam shells. (4) A person in contravention of these Regulation 15(3) commits an offence: (a) shall be liable to fine of not exceeding 100,000 penalty units; and (b) the Director may cancel any licence issued to such person under these Regulations. Dated this seventeenth day of February, 2014. HON. ALFRED GHIRO, MP Minister for Fisheries and Marine Resources Honiara, Solomon Islands Printed under the authority of the Solomon Islands Government Printed by Pacific Printers Limited.