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Section 35

Designated area

of Fisheries (Adoption) Ordinance, 1994

State OrdinanceRepealedProvision 35 of 67
Section 35

—

(1)

The Minister may, upon the recommendation of the

State Veterinary Authority, declare an area in riverine waters where there is an outbreak of a fish disease as a designated area for the purposes of this Part.

(2)

Subject to section 36, where the Minister has declared a designated area pursuant to subsection (1), the State Veterinary

Authority shall notify the fish or aquatic life likely to be infected or contaminated by the fish disease and, from the time he makes the notification, no person shall, without a permit from the State

Veterinary Authority, move, remove or transport:

(a)

any fish or aquatic life—

(i)

into the designated area;

(ii)

out of the designated area; or

(iii)

from a place within the designated area except to a contiguous place in the designated area occupied by the same person; or

(b)

any flesh or other parts of fish designated in the notification—

(i)

out of the designated area; or

(ii)

from a place in the designated area except to a contiguous place in the designated area occupied by the same person.