New regulations to govern inshore waters |14 August 2020

The Beach Control Act was enacted in 1971 and its subsequent legislations, Beach Control Regulations came into force in 1978 and since the Act itself and the subsidiary legislation regulate several parts of the sea and the beach, it is being administered by various governmental entities.

As 75 percent of the Act is about regulating the use of the inshore waters which is a direct mandate of the Seychelles Maritime Safety Authority (SMSA), it was proposed that relevant sections pertaining to the mandates of the authority is repealed from the Beach Control Act and transferred to a separate regulation under the SMSA Act, 2019 under the proposed name of Seychelles Maritime Safety Authority (Inshore Waters) Regulations 2020.