{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "apni/1966/17",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-act-northern-ireland-1966",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "Restrictions on the use of fishing engines and rods and lines at or in the vicinity of dams.",
  "text": "(1) No person, other than a person to whom subsection (2) applies, shall—\n[(a)] use any fishing engine (other than a rod and line) from any position on a dam or at any place within 200 metres above or below any dam; [ or\n(b) use a rod and line from any position on or within 5 metres or such other distance as may be prescribed by regulations above or below any dam].\n(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.]\n(3) If any person contravenes subsection (1) he shall be guilty of an offence, ….",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "1968 c.31 (NI)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "1991 NI 13"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "SR 1983/100"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "1981 NI 7"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/17/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T21:32:15.701581+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}