Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1983.
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Abstract
This Act amends existing fishing legislation by: (a) restricting fishing of certain fishing boats registered under the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894 or the Mercantile Marine Act, 1955; (b) empowering the Minister to make regulations requiring sea-fishing boats to comply with certain conditions under the Fisheries Acts; (c) empowering the Minister, under the Fisheries Acts to prescribe or adopt, by Order, the measures of conservation of fish stocks and measures of rational exploitation of fisheries specified in section 4; (d) empowering the Minister to make regulations to give effect within the exclusive fishery limits of the State to Community legislation; (e) regulate certain aspects of forfeiture of boats, and; (f) regulate the registration under the Merchant Shipping Act and the Mercantile Marine Act of boats which are subject to grant of licence under the present Act. (12 sections)
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An Act to make further provision as regards sea-fishing and for that purpose to amend and extend the Fisheries acts, 1959 to 1980, and to make certain provisions regarding registration under the Mercantile Marine Act, 1955, and entry in the fishing boat register under Part IV of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894.
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Repeals sections 9, 10, 11, and 12 of the Sea Fisheries Act 1952.
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English
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