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Paragraphs in "Niue Treaty On Cooperation In Fisheries Surveillance And Law Enforcement In The South Pacific Region" coded as SUBS

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Art.2 Article II
Art.2.1 1. Rights and obligations under this Treaty shall apply as between the Parties in addition to any right or obligation concerning a similar matter applicable to a Party under any other Treaty.
Art.2.2 2. A Subsidiary Agreement may expand upon rights and obligations under this Treaty in their application between the Parties to the Subsidiary Agreement.
Art.3 Article III
Art.3.1 1. The Parties shall cooperate in the enforcement of their fisheries laws and regulations in accordance with this Treaty and may agree on forms of assistance for that purpose.
Art.3.2 2. The Parties shall cooperate to develop regionally agreed procedures for the conduct of fisheries surveillance and law enforcement. Where appropriate, fisheries surveillance and law enforcement will be conducted in accordance with such regionally agreed procedures.
Art.4 Article IV
Art.4.1 1. The Parties shall cooperate in the implementation of harmonized minimum terms and conditions of fisheries access as may be agreed upon from time to time.
Art.4.2 2. The Parties shall ensure that no foreign fishing vessel shall be licensed for fishing unless the vessel has good standing on the Regional Register of Foreign Fishing Vessels maintained by the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency.
Art.4.3 3. The Parties shall ensure that foreign fishing vessels licensed to fish under foreign fishing agreements are, as a minimum, required to provide reports in accordance with the standard forms of reporting as set out in the harmonized minimum terms and conditions of fisheries access from time to time.
Art.4.4 4. The Parties shall ensure that fishing vessels licensed to fish under foreign fishing agreements are required to be readily identifiable from the sea and the air by way of distinctive markings.
Art.4.5 5. The Parties shall, as far as possible, ensure that foreign fishing agreements with flag States require the flag State to take responsibility for the compliance by its flag vessels with the terms of any such agreement and applicable laws.
Art.4.6 6. The Parties shall, as far as possible, ensure that foreign fishing arrangements with foreign parties, including Fishing Associations, require the foreign party to take responsibility for the compliance by its vessels with the terms of any such arrangement and applicable laws.
Art.6 Article VI
Art.6.1 1. A Party may, by way of provisions in a Subsidiary Agreement or otherwise, permit another Party to extend its fisheries surveillance and law enforcement activities to the territorial sea and archipelagic waters of that Party. In such circumstances, the conditions and method of stopping, inspecting, detaining, directing to port and seizing vessels shall be governed by the national laws and regulations applicable in the State in whose territorial sea or archipelagic waters the fisheries surveillance or law enforcement activity was carried out.
Art.6.2 2. Vessels seized by another Party pursuant to an agreement under paragraph 1 of this Article in the territorial sea or archipelagic waters of a Party shall, together with the persons on board, be handed over as soon as possible to the authorities of that Party.
Art.6.3 3. Any two or more Parties may enter into a Subsidiary Agreement under which they would cooperate in the provision of personnel and the use of vessels, aircraft or other items of equipment for fisheries surveillance and law enforcement purposes. Vessels and aircraft shall be identified as set out in Annex 1.
Art.6.4 4. Any Party wishing to authorize its officers to perform fisheries surveillance and law enforcement functions on its behalf while on board a vessel or aircraft of another Party shall by instrument in writing designate the officers accordingly and such officers shall be identified as set out in Annex 2.
Art.6.5 5. Any Party wishing to authorize the officers of another Party to perform fisheries surveillance and law enforcement functions on its behalf while on board a vessel of that other Party shall by instrument in writing designate such officers accordingly. Officers carrying out enforcement functions shall be identified by a card in the form set out in Annex 2 with such variations as may be agreed to in a Subsidiary Agreement or otherwise.
Art.7 Article VII
Art.7.1 1. The Parties may, by way of provisions in a Subsidiary Agreement or otherwise, agree on procedures for the extradition to a Party of persons charged with offences against the fisheries laws of that Party.
Art.7.2 2. A Party may request another Party which is holding a person or any equipment (including a vessel) in custody for an offence against the laws of the holding Party to assist the requesting Party to enforce its fisheries laws in respect of that person or equipment. The holding Party shall provide such assistance upon completion of its legal processes and to the extent permitted by its national laws and regulations. Such assistance shall be provided on conditions as to cost recovery or other matters as the Parties agree in each case.
Art.7.3 3. The Parties may agree on procedures whereby persons permitted to appear as advocates or expert witnesses in the courts of one Party are, for the purposes of judicial proceedings involving offences against fisheries laws, entitled to perform the same or substantially similar functions in the courts of another Party.
Art.7.4 4. Where there are waters over which more than one Party claims to have jurisdiction for the purposes of the application of fisheries laws, the Parties concerned shall for the purposes of the application of this Agreement seek to adopt the provisional lines used for the distribution of revenue received under the Treaty on Fisheries between the Governments of Certain Pacific Island States and the Government of the United States of America done at Port Moresby on 2 April 1987[3].
Art.8 Article VIII
Art.8.1x Should two or more Parties wish to provide that a penalty imposed by one Party under its fisheries laws be enforced by another Party, they may, by way of provisions in a Subsidiary Agreement or otherwise, agree on procedures for that purpose consistent with their national laws.
Art.10 Article X
Art.10.1 1. Each Party shall notify the Director of the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency of the current postal, cable, telex and facsimile addresses which it wishes to be used for the receipt of notices given pursuant to this Treaty, and of any changes to a notified address. The Director of the South Pacific Forum Fisheries Agency shall inform all Parties of the notified addresses.
Art.10.2 2. Any notice given under this Treaty shall be in writing and may be served by hand, post, cable, telex or facsimile to the notified address.