Malaysia legislation

Section 47

of FISHERIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2025

Section 47

Amendment of section 61

(a)

by inserting after the word “development” the words

“, aquaculture, research, expansion”;

(b)

by inserting after the words “in Malaysian fisheries waters”

the words “for the assurance of safety and quality of fish and fish products,”;

Fisheries (Amendment)

(c)

by substituting for paragraph (k) the following paragraph:

“(k) to prescribe any matter relating to fishing appliances and fishing stakes including any prohibition of method of fishing or fishing appliances;”;

(d)

by substituting for paragraph (l) the following paragraph:

“(l) to prohibit any act including catching, injuring, killing or possessing any species of fish;”;

(e)

in paragraph (s), by inserting after the word “certificates”

the words “, written approval”;

(f)

in paragraph (u), by inserting after the word “sport” the words

“or recreation”;

(g)

in paragraph (x), by inserting after the words

“management of” the words “fish or”;

(h)

in paragraph (ad), by substituting for the words

“reserved to local fishing vessels and Malaysian fishermen”

the words “reserved or zoned to local fishing vessels,

Malaysian fishermen, sport or recreation”;

(i)

in the national language text, in paragraph (af), by substituting for the words “yang merbahaya” the word “terancam”;

(j)

by renumbering the existing paragraph (al) as paragraph (ap); and

(k)

by inserting after paragraph (ak) the following paragraphs:

“(al) to prescribe the offences which may be compounded and the forms to be used and the method and procedure for compounding the offences for the purposes of section 31;

(am) to provide for community based or ecosystem approach to fishery resource management;

(an) to prescribe zone area for the management, conservation, research, development, maintenance, control and protection in Malaysian fisheries waters;

(ao) to prescribe any matter in relation to fisheries expansion service;”.

Saving and transitional