Section 13 — FISHERIES ACT 1985

(2)

The Director General shall refuse to issue a licence in respect of any local fishing vessel in any of the following cases:

(a)

where the vessel is required to be registered under the law relating to merchant shipping but has not been so registered;

(b)

where the vessel is required to have a valid certificate of inspection issued in respect of it under the law relating to merchant shipping but does not have such certificate;

(c)

where the vessel is not seaworthy and not fit for the purpose of fishing or does not comply with such requirements as may be applicable to it in respect of navigation, manning standards or safety at sea under this

Act or any other law or under any convention to which

Malaysia is a party.

(3)

The Director General may refuse to issue or to renew any licence under this Act or may cancel, or suspend for such period as he thinks fit, any licence issued under this Act where there has been a breach of any of the provisions of this Act or any of the conditions of the licence.

(4)

Any person aggrieved by the refusal of the Director General to issue or renew any licence under this Act or by the suspension or cancellation of any licence issued under this Act may appeal to the

Minister in the prescribed manner against such refusal, suspension or cancellation within a period of thirty days after the date of such refusal, suspension or cancellation.

(5)

The Minister may, after hearing the appeal, make such order thereon as he deems fit and that order shall be final.

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(6)

Any order made under subsection (5) shall take into account any scheme for the limitation of fishing effort for which provision is made in any fisheries plan referred to in Part III.

Period of validity of licence and non-transferability