S.L. 425.7 Art. 16Satellite monitoring system.

(a) all commercial fishing vessels shall be equipped with a satellite-tracking device as may be required by the Director and in accordance with this regulation:

Provided that this obligation shall not apply if a commercial fishing vessel is otherwise obliged to be equipped with a functioning Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) or if a commercial fishing vessel is in fact equipped with such a functioning system.

(b) Repealed by Legal Notice 191 of 2023.

(c) If for some reason this system stops working during the fishing trip the captain or owner are bound to communicate the exact position of the fishing vessel by other means every two hours to the Department. The captain or owner of the fishing vessel shall come into port within twenty-four hours from when the automatic system stops functioning.

(d) In the failure to deliver this communication the captain shall stop his activities and return to port.

(e) The relevant details for the identification of the vessel within this system will be confidential and will be the responsibility of such person as is delegated by the Director.

(f) No person shall input or output any false positions, manually over-ride, destroy, damage, render inoperative, tamper or otherwise interfere with the satellite-tracking device and system:

Provided that the Director may authorise improvement, repair or replacement of the said device and system.