SOLOMON ISLANDS

FISHERIES (AMENDMENT) ACT 2009

(NO. 6 of 2009)

PASSED by the National Parliament this twenty-third day of March 2009.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill.

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Taeasi Sanga (Mrs)
Clerk to National Parliament

ASSENTED to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this eighth day of May 2009.

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Sir Nathaniel Rahumaea Waena
Governor-General

Date of commencement: date of publication in the Gazette
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AN ACT TO AMEND THE FISHERIES ACT 1998.

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

Short title and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Fisheries (Amendment) Act 2009, and commences on the date it is published in the Gazette.

Principal Act amended

2. The principal Act is amended by amending the respective sections set out in column 1 of the Schedule by deleting the corresponding matters under column 2 and substituting the corresponding matters in column 3.
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SCHEDULE
(Section 2)

Section amended
(Column 1)	Delete
(Column 2)	Substitute
(Column 3)	
Section 10(3)(k)	“two thousand dollars”	“$5,000”	
Section 12(4)	“five hundred dollars”	“$2,000”	
Section 14(9)	“one hundred thousand dollars”	“$250,000”	
Section 16(12)	“one million dollars”	“$2,500,000”	
Section 19(4)	“two thousand dollars”	“$5,000”	
Section 20(3)	“five hundred thousand dollars”	“$1,500,000”	
Section 21(2)(c)	“one million dollars”	“$2,500,000”	
Section 23(4)	“one hundred thousand dollars”	“$250,000”	
Section 30(1)	
“one thousand dollars”	“$3,000”	
Section 30(3)	“one thousand dollars”	“$53,000”	
Section 30(4)	“one thousand dollars”	“$3,000”	
Section 39	“two hundred thousand dollars”	“$500,000”	
Section 40	“fifty thousand dollars”	“$150,000”	
Section 41	“two hundred thousand dollars”	“$500,000”	
Section 45	“one hundred thousand dollars”	“$250,000”	
Section 56(1)	“one million dollars”	“$2,500,000”	
Section 57(4)	“two hundred thousand dollars”	“$500,000”	
Section 57(5)	“fifty thousand dollars”	“$150,000”	
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