Fisheries (Amendment) Law

Fisheries (Amendment) Law A LAW TO AMEND THE FISHERIES ORDINANCE. BE it enacted by the National State Assembly of the Republic of Sri Lanka, as follow:- Short title. 1. This Law may be cited as the Fisheries (Amendment) Law. No 46 of 1973. Amendment of section 2 of Chapter 212. 2. Section 2 of the Fisheries Ordinance (hereinafter referred to as the ” principal enactment “), is hereby amended as follows – (1) in subsection (1) of that section, by the substitution, for paragraph (b) of that subsection, of the following next paragraph:- ” (b) one or more persons, by name or by office, to be or to act as Deputy Directors of Fisheries; and “; and (2) by the substitution, for subsection (3) of that section, of the following new subsection: – ” (3) Any person appointed under subsection (1) to be or to act as a Deputy Director of Fisheries may, subject to the control of the Director, exercise all or any of the powers conferred on the Director by or under this Ordinance .”. Amendment of section 3 of the principal enactment. 3. Section 3 of the principal enactment is hereby amended in subsection (1) of that section, as follows:- (a) the insertion, immediately after paragraph (a), of the following new paragraphs – ” (aa) one or more Deputy Directors of Fisheries appointed by the Minister;”; and (b) by the substitution, for paragraph (6), of the following new paragraph: – “(b) the persons for the time being holding the offices of Director of Commerce, Commissioner for the Development of Marketing, Master Attendant of the port of Colombo and Registrar of Co-operative Societies;” Retrospective affect of amendments made in principal enactment and validation of appointments made, &c. 4. The amendments matte in the principal enactment by this Law shall be deemed for all purposes to have come into force on the date on which that enactment came into force, and accordingly- (a) the appointment, prior to the date of commencement of this Law, of every person, by name or by office, to be or to act as a Deputy Director of Fisheries shall, at all times, be deemed to be and to have been validly made under the principal enactment as amended by section 2 of this Law; and (b) the exercise, discharge and performance, prior to the date of commencement of this Law, by any such person appointed as a Deputy Director of Fisheries, of the powers, duties and functions conferred and imposed on and assigned to the Director of Fisheries by or under the principal enactment shall, at all times, be deemed to be and to have been validly exercised, discharged and performed by or under that enactment.