Section 40
Section 52 of the principal Act is amended—
of Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2025
(a)
in the national language text, in the marginal note, by substituting for the word “Rampasan” the word
“Pelucuthakan”;
Fisheries (Amendment)
(b)
in subsection (1)—
(i)
by substituting for paragraph (a) the following paragraph:
“(a) under paragraph 8(a) or 14(3)(b), subsection 11(3), 11(3a), 15(1), 15(2)
or 19(5), or section 10a, 26 or 44; or”;
(ii)
in subparagraph (i), by substituting for the words
“vessel (including its equipment, furniture, appurtenances, stores, cargo and fishing appliance), vehicle” the words “fishing vessel, conveyance”;
and
(iii)
by substituting for subparagraph (ii) the following subparagraph:
“(ii) order that any fish seized or the proceeds of the sale of any fish or other article of a perishable nature referred to in section 48, and any explosive, poison, pollutant, apparatus or prohibited gear, or part thereof, used or intended to be used in the commission of such offence be forfeited.”; and
(c)
by substituting for subsection (2) the following subsection:
“(2) Any fishing vessel, conveyance, article, thing, explosive, poison, pollutant, apparatus or prohibited gear, or part thereof, fish ordered to be forfeited under subsection (1) or deemed or ordered to be forfeited under section 49 shall be disposed of in accordance with such manner as the Director General may think fit.”.