Sea-Fisheries (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2022

Amendment of section 13 of Act of 2006

4. Section 13 of the Act of 2006 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1)—

(i) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a):

“(a) upon—

(i) the application from any person, in such form as the Minister decides, or

(ii) the Minister’s own initiative, in respect of any person,

who—

(I) is the owner of an Irish sea-fishing boat which is entered in the Register of Fishing Boats, and

(II) to whom a sea-fishing boat licence has been granted,

and”,

and

(ii) by the substitution of “grant (in electronic form or otherwise)” for “grant”,

(b) in subsection (2)(a), by the deletion of “, charterer or hirer, as the case may be,”, and

(c) in subsection (5), by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (k):

“(k) requiring the keeping of the authorisation, or where the authorisation is issued in electronic form, a printed copy of the authorisation, on the boat concerned.”.