Section 56 Restrictions on the use of fishing engines and rods and lines at or in the vicinity of dams.

Northern Ireland

(1)

No person, other than a person to whom subsection (2) applies, shall—

F1[(a)]

use any fishing engine (other than a rod and line)F2 from any position on a dam or at any place withinF3 200 metres above or below any dam; [ or

(b)

use a rod and line from any position on or within 5 metres or such other distance as may be prescribed by F4regulations above or below any dam].

(2)

Subsection (1) shall not apply to any person who is for the time being the owner of a several fishery in any place referred to in that subsection, and who is a successor in title of any other person who had exercised in that place the right of taking fish during the period of twenty years immediately preceding 14th August 1850 [; and paragraph ( b) of that subsection shall not apply in any case or class of case in which it is excluded (either absolutely or upon the observance of prescribed conditions) by regulations.]

(3)

If any person contravenes subsection (1) he shall be guilty of an offence, …F5.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: 1968 c.31 (NI)
F2: 1991 NI 13
F3: SR 1983/100
F4: S. 56(1)(2): 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)
F5: 1981 NI 7

Notes on the whole Act

Textual amendments

F1: App. (hovercraft), SI 1972/971