{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-tagging-and-logbook-byelaws-northern-ireland-2001/section-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-tagging-and-logbook-byelaws-northern-ireland-2001/section-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2001/291",
  "legislation_title": "Fisheries (Tagging and Logbook) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/fisheries-tagging-and-logbook-byelaws-northern-ireland-2001",
  "path": "section/2",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Byelaws—\n“the Act” means the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966;\n“authorised agent” means a person through whom the Board issues certain fishing licences;\n“authorised person” means—\n(a) a member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary; or\n(b) an officer appointed by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure; or\n(c) an officer of the Board; or\n(d) a private water bailiff; or\n(e) any person who is a British sea-fishery officer for the purposes of the Sea Fisheries Acts (as defined by section 19(1) of the Sea Fisheries Act 1968);\n“bag net” means a net consisting of a single wall of netting and leader, one end fixed to the shore and running seawards to a floating fixed trap or cage of netting, enclosed on sides, bottom and top, except at the entrance from the leader; and with one or more sets of inscales and described in a certificate issued under the Salmon Fishery (Ireland) Act 1863 as a bag net;\n“dealer” means the holder of a dealer’s licence granted under Part VII of the Act authorising the holder to sell salmon and trout;\n“draft net” means a single wall of netting loosely hung on ground and head ropes with the outer ends or wings leading to a funnel and a bag or tail into which the catch is drafted or hauled;\n“drift net” means a single sheet or wall of netting attached to a floating head rope and a weighted ground rope, designed to drift freely at the surface of the water;\n“export” in relation to a wild salmon or sea trout means consign by any means to a place outside the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland;\n“farmed salmon or sea trout” means a salmon or sea trout produced in a fish farm;\n“fixed tidal draft net” means a net consisting of a single sheet or wall of netting loosely hung on ground and head ropes without trap or cage and fixed at the shoreward and seaward ends and described in a certificate issued under the Salmon Fishery (Ireland) Act 1863 as a fixed draft net;\n“game fishing rod licence” means a game fishing rod licence issued pursuant to the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997;\n“gill tag” means a gill tag approved by the Board;\n“hand line” means a line held in the hand to which shall be attached not more than a single hook;\n“holder” in relation to a logbook, means the person to whom the logbook has been issued under these Byelaws;\n“import” in relation to a wild salmon or sea trout means bring by any means into Northern Ireland (other than into the Londonderry Area or the Newry Area) from a place outside the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland;\n“length” in relation to a sea trout means the distance measured in a straight line from the tip of the nose to the fork of the tail;\n“licence-holder” means the holder of a fishing licence;\n“logbook” means, as the case may be, a one day angling logbook, a salmon and sea trout angling logbook or a salmon and sea trout commercial fishing logbook;\n“named person” means a person who is authorised by the Board under Byelaw 14 of the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997 to act in the absence of a licence-holder;\n“officer of the Board” has the meaning given to it by section 166(1) of the Act;\n“one day angling logbook” means a logbook as set out in the format prescribed in Schedule 1;\n“processing” in relation to a wild salmon or sea trout, includes cutting any steaks, cutlets or other portions of salmon or sea trout immediately prior to their being offered or exposed for sale;\n“register” means a register in the form set out in Schedule 2;\n“salmon and sea trout angling logbook” means a logbook as set out in the format prescribed in Schedule 3;\n“salmon and sea trout commercial fishing logbook” means a logbook as set out in the format prescribed in Schedule 4;\n“supply” includes supply by way of gift or sale;\n“tag” means a gill tag or a tail tag;\n“tail tag” means a tail tag approved by the Board;\n“tidal draft net” means a net used in tidal waters consisting of a single sheet or wall of netting loosely hung on ground and head ropes into which the catch is drafted or hauled;\n“wild salmon” means an Atlantic salmon salmo salar which is not a farmed salmon; and\n“wild sea trout” means a sea trout salmo truta over 50cms in length which is not a farmed sea trout.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 2 in operation at 3.9.2001, see byelaw 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1968 c. 77"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1863 c. 114 (Ireland)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.R. 1997 No. 425 as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 12, S.R. 1999 No. 488 and S.R. 2000 No. 364"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 166(1) was amended by the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/227 (N.I. 7)), Article 10(4) and Schedule 5 and by the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, Article 35(1) and Schedule 3, paragraph 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2001/291/section/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:10:42.477714+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."
}