Section 179A Production of permits issued under section 7A.F1
Northern Ireland
If any person—
using at any waters the fishing rights in which are owned by the Department a fishing engine for which a permit is required under section 7A, or
having such a fishing engine erected or in fishing order in his possession in or near such a place,
fails on demand to produce to an authorised person a permit by or by virtue of which he is authorised to use that fishing engine in those waters, he shall be guilty of an offence.
Subsections (2) to (4) of section 179 shall apply in relation to an offence under subsection (1) in the same manner as those provisions apply to an offence under subsection (1) of that section, but with the omission from subsection (3)(b)(i) of that section of the words “by F2regulations made under section 37(1)(f)”.
In this section “authorised person” means—
an officer appointed by the Department, F3. . .
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Annotations
Textual amendments
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S. 179A: word in Act substituted (1.6.2009) by Public Authorities (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 3), ss. 1(3)(b), 7(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 3(1)(c) (with Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2009/172, art. 2(a)(b)
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S. 179A(3)(b) and preceding word repealed (1.6.2009) by Public Authorities (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (c. 3), ss. 1(3)(b), 6, 7(1), Sch. 1 Pt. 2 para. 3(34), Sch. 3 (with Sch. 1 Pt. 1 para. 4(3)); S.R. 2009/172, art. 2(b)(e)
Notes on the whole Act
Textual amendments
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App. (hovercraft), SI 1972/971