Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the regulations, bur is Intended

to indicate their general purport).

Regulations 2 to 15 of these regulations, which are all of a technical nature, make certain basic safety requirements with respect to boilers and pressure receivers and their operation and also with respect to auxiliary equipment, includ- ing pumps, burners and pipes. Regulations 3, 4 and 5 are modelled on provision in the Factories Act, 1961 of the United Kingdom.

2. Regulation 16 empowers the Principal Surveyor to require the taking of such special safety precautions as he considers necessary having regard to the situation of a fuel burning installation or the nature of the business carried on in a factory in which such an installation is situated.

(Secretariat GR26/3231/55)

FISHERIES PROTECTION ORDINANCE, 1962.

(No. 39 of 1962),

FISHERIES PROTECTION REGULATIONS,

1962.

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 4 of the Fisheries Protection Ordinance, 1962, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations—

1. These regulations may be cited as the Fisheries Protection Citation. Regulations. 1962.

1. No person with intent to capture fish shall use any explosive, Prohibition

of the use of explosives.

3. No person with intent to capture fish shall use any toxic Prohibition substance.

of the use of toxic substances.

4. No person shall possess or bave in his control any explosivé" Possession of toxic substance for the purpose of fishing.

of explosives of toxic substances.

5. In the event of any Contravention of regulation 2, 3 or 4, the Liability of master or person in charge of-

(a) any vessel upon which or from which such contravention was

committed, or

(6) any vessel used for or employed in the commission of such

contravention,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction

b a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two months.

master, etc., of vessel.

6. The Commissioner, and in the case of ponds or artificially Exemptions.

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enclosed waters the Director of Agriculture and Forestry, may by

permit in writing exempt any person from all or any of the provisions

of these regulations where he is satisfied that such exemption is reason- ably necessary for the purpose of-

(a) carrying out any scientific research; or

(b) carrying on any bona fide business of fish culture in poods or

artificially enclosed waters.

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