FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 79 Prohibition of bag nets in certain places.

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FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 79

Prohibition of bag nets in certain places.

79.(1) Subject to subsection (3), no bag net shall be placed or allowed to
remain in any river or estuary or within a distance of three miles from the
mouth of any river.

(2) If any bag net is placed or allowed to remain in contravention of this
section

(a)it shall be deemed a common nuisance and may be taken possession of or
destroyed; and

(b)the owner of the bag net shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable
on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [#500] or to imprisonment for a
term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.

(3) This section shall not apply to

(a)the placing or continuing, within three miles of the mouth of a river, of a
bag net, where the owner of the bag net has the exclusive right of catching
salmon in the whole of that river, including all tributary rivers and lakes
upon the course of that river, and where that owner or a predecessor in title
of his had on or immediately before 28th July 1863 exercised that right by
means of a bag net at the place where the first-mentioned bag net is placed;
or

(b)the placing or continuing, in accordance with the provisions of a licence
granted under section 77(2), of a bag net the erection and use of which is
authorised by the licence.

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FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 79