The text is not entirely readable.FISHERIES AND AQUATIC RESOURCES ACT, No. 2 OF 1996Act, No. 2 of 1996(Certified on 11th January, 1996)an Act to provide for the management, regulation, conservation and development of fisheries and aquatic resources in sri lanka; to repeal the fisheries ordinance (chapter 212), the chank fisheries act (chapter 213), the pearl fisheries ordinance (chapter 214) and the whaling ordinance (chapter 215); and to provide for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.BE it enacted by the Parliament of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka as follows :-Short title.1. This Act may be cited as the Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Act, No. 2 of 1996.PART IAdministrationAppointment of Director and other officers.2. (1) There shall be appointed- (a) a person, by name or by office, to be or to act as Director of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources; (b) one or more persons, by name or by office, to be or to act as Deputy Director of Fis...