(1) The Director General shall prepare and keep under continual review fisheries plans based on the best scientific information available and designed to ensure optimum utilization of fishery resources, consistent with sound conservation and management principles and with the avoidance of overfishing, and in accordance with the overall national policies, development plans and programmes.
(2) Each plan and each modification or revision thereof shall be implemented after approval by the Minister.
(3) All development within the fisheries industry shall conform generally with the management and conservation policies described in the fisheries plans.
Malay text (authoritative)
Persediaan rancangan perikanan
(1) Ketua Pengarah hendaklah menyediakan dan sentiasa mengkaji semula rancangan perikanan berdasarkan maklumat saintifik terbaik yang ada dan dirancangkan untuk memastikan penggunaan optimum akan sumber perikanan, yang konsisten dengan prinsip pemuliharaan dan pengurusan yang baik dan pengelakan penangkapan ikan yang berlebihan, dan mengikut keseluruhan dasar negara, rancangan dan program kemajuan.
(2) Setiap rancangan dan setiap ubah suaian atau penyemakannya hendaklah dilaksanakan setelah diluluskan oleh Menteri.
(3) Segala kemajuan dalam industri perikanan hendaklah menepati pada umumnya polisi pengurusan dan pemuliharaan yang diperihalkan dalam rancangan perikanan.
Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.
Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).
