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Fisheries And Aquatic Resources Act (No. 2 of 1996) - Sect 32

Fisheries Committees

32.
(1) Registered fishermen residing or engaged in fishing in each fisheries management area or part thereof, or migrant fishermen may form themselves into a fisheries committee.
(2) The functions of a fisheries committee shall include-
(a) formulating a fisheries programme for its area and implementing that programme ;
(b) assisting its members to obtain boats, gear, and equipment to be used in fishing operations;
(c) carrying out social infrastructure and welfare activities with a view to improving the living standards of the fishing community of that area ; and
(d) engaging in such other activities as are approved by the Director as beneficial to the fishing community of the area.
(3) The Director may, on application by any fisheries committee, register such fisheries committee and shall publish in the Gazette a notification of such registration.
(4) From and after the date of registration of a fisheries committee under subsection (3) such committee shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal and may sue and be sued by the name by which it is registered.
(5) Regulations may be made in respect of the election of office bearers of a fisheries committee registered under this section ,powers of such committee and the procedure for the transaction of business by committee accounts to by maintained by such committee and the adit of such accounts by the Director or an officer authorised by him in that behalf.
(6) The Director may cancel the registration of any fisheries committee if he is satisfied, after holding such inquiry as he may deem fit, that the fisheries committee has been inactive or has failed to conduct itself in the interests of its members.
(7) The Director shall, where he cancels the registration of a fisheries committee, appoint a person to be liquidator of that fisheries committee who shall have the power to-
(a) take possession of the books, documents and assets of the fisheries committee;
(b) sell the property of the fisheries committee ;
(c) decide any question of priority among the creditors of the fisheries committee;
(d) compromise any claim by or against the fisheries committee with the prior approval of the Director; and
(e) arrange for the distribution of the assets of the fisheries committee in the prescribed manner.
(8) in the aquidation of any fisheries committee, its funds on applied first to the cost of liquidation and then to She discharge of its liabilities .Any surplus remaining after the closure of the liquidation shall be credited to the Consolidation fund.


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