The Indian Fisheries (Pondicherry Amendment) Act, 1965 Complete Act - Bare Act

1. Short title, extend and commencement.

2. Amendment of section 6, Central Act, IV of 1897.

3. Amendment of section 6, Central Act, IV of 1897.

4. Insertion of new sub-section (7) to section 6, Central Act IV of 1897.

5. Insertion of new section 8 to Central Act IV of 1897.

it is expedient to amend the Indian Fisheries Act, 1897 (Central Act IV of 1897) in its application to the Union territory of Pondicherry;

Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly in the Sixteenth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-

(1) This Act may be called the Indian Fisheries (Pondicherry Amendment) Act, 1965.

(2) It extends to the whole of the Union territory of Pondicherry.

(3) It shall come into force at once.

In sub-section (3) of section 6 of the Indian Fisheries Act, 1897 (Central Act IV of 1897) (hereinafter referred to as the said Act)-

(i) after the words "prohibit or regulate", the words "either permanently or for a time or for specified seasons only" shall be inserted, and

(iii) for clause (c), the following clause shall be substituted, namely:-

"(c) the dimension and kind of the contrivances to be used for taking fish generally or any specified kind of fish and the modes of using such contrivances".

For sub-section (4) of section 6 of the said Act, the following sub-section shall be substituted, namely:-

"(4) Such rules may also prohibit all fishing in any specified water except under a lease or licence granted by Government and in accordance with such conditions as may be specified in such lease or licence".

After sub-section (6) of section 6 of the said Act, the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely.-

"(7) All rules made under this Act shall, as soon as may be after they are made, by laid before the Legislative Assembly of Pondicherry while it is in session for a total period of fourteen days, which may be comprised in one session or in two successive sessions, and, if before the expiry of the session which it is so laid or the session immediately following, the Legislative Assembly makes any modification in the rule or decides that any such rule should not be made, that rule shall thereafter have effect only in such modified form or be of no effect, as the case may be, so, however, that any such modification or annulment shall be with at prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under the rule."

After section 7 of the said Act, the following sections hall be inserted, namely:-

All rents, fees and other moneys payable to Government on account of Fishery leases and licences granted by them may be recovered in like manner as if they were arrears of land revenue."