Cap. 425 Art. 16Transhipment and export of fish.

(1) The Minister may provide by regulations for the licensing of the transhipment or receiving of fish by fishing vessels in the fishing waters or the transport from the internal waters or territorial seas by any vessel of fish transhipped from any other vessel.

(2) Regulations made under subarticle (1) may apply such restrictions and conditions on the granting of licences or permits as the Minister shall consider appropriate and in particular may provide for -

(a) the areas in which transhipping may take place;

(b) the times when fish may be transhipped or transported;

(c) the numbers of transhipments and transportations that may be undertaken and the quantities and descriptions of fish that may be transhipped or transported.

(3) Regulations made under subarticle (1) shall empower the Director to impose such conditions on the grant of licences or permits thereunder as he shall consider necessary for the regulation of the transhipment or export of fish including conditions as to the treatment on board fishing vessels of fish received on board and different conditions may be imposed in respect of different fishing vessels or fishing vessels of different descriptions.