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FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966


TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   1.      Section 1
   2.      Section 2
   3.      Development of derelict waters for angling.
   4.      Provisions supplemental to section 3.
   5.      Payment of grants and execution of works for the development, etc.,
           of waters for angling.
   6.      Programme for the development, etc., of waters for angling.
   7.      Compilation and publication of angling guide.
   8.      Section 8
   9.      Section 9
   10.     Power of Ministry to establish a fish farm.
   11.     Fish culture licences.
   12.     Power of Ministry to conduct or assist research.
   13.     Prohibition of introduction of fish of certain kinds.
   14.     Exemptions for artificial propagation and scientific purposes.
   15.     Regulations with respect to eel fishing.
   15A.    Section 15A
   16.     Section 16
   17.     Section 17
   18.     Disclosure of returns and information.
   19.     Section 19
   20.     Section 20
   21.     Section 21
   22.     Section 22
   23.     Section 23
   24.     Appropriations in aid.
   25.     Section 25
   26.     Power of Board to make byelaws.
   27.     Section 27
   28.     Duty of Board to make to Ministry a yearly return of estimated
           receipts and payments.
   29.     Power of Ministry to make advances to the Board.
   30.     Accounts of the Board.
   31.     Audit.
   32.     Section 32
   33.     Duty of Board to disclose information to Ministry.
   34.     Section 34
   35.     Power of Ministry to make arrangements for the transfer of staff of
           district boards to the service of the Board.
   37.     Section 37
   38.     Arrangements for the issue of certain licences.
   39.     Angling licences to be non-transferable.
   40.     Effect of fishing licences.
   41.     Prohibition of unlicensed fishing.
   42.     Charging of certain offences under s.41.
   43.     Defences to charges under section 41.
   44.     Complimentary licences.
   45.     Falsification, etc., of licences.
   46.     Section 46
   47.     Penalty for pollution.
   48.     Section 48
   49.     Chasing, etc., spawning fish.
   50.     Penalties for taking, etc., unseasonable salmon or trout.
   51.     Prohibition against sale, etc., of immature salmon or trout.
   52.     Taking undersized pollen.
   53.     Section 53
   54.     Construction of fish passes in dams in rivers.
   55.     Offence of taking fish in a fish pass, using fishing engines in a
           fish pass or placing obstacles in a fish pass.
   56.     Section 56
   57.     Penalty for taking fish in works or watercourses appurtenant to
           mills.
   58.     Section 58
   59.     Section 59
   61.     Section 61
   62.     Section 62
   63.     Fishing for salmon or trout by cross lines.
   64.     Penalty for taking salmon or trout in eel weir.
   65.     Penalty for damming or teeming river or millrace for purpose of
           taking salmon or trout.
   66.     Section 66
   67.     Mesh of nets made of non-rigid material for the taking of salmon
           in the sea or tideways.
   68.     Meshes or openings of engines made of rigid material for the taking
           of salmon in the sea or tideways.
   69.     Use of salmon nets near mouths of rivers.
   70.     Powers of Board with respect to drift nets for the taking of
           salmon in the sea.
   71.     Restriction on use of nets in fresh water.
   72.     Mesh of nets for taking fish in fresh water.
   73.     Section 73
   74.     Restriction on use of fixed engines for the capture of salmon in
           the sea or tideways.
   75.     Effect of certificate under section 6 of the Salmon Fishery
           (Ireland) Act 1863.
   76.     Power of Ministry to authorise the alteration of sites of fixed
           engines.
   77.     Power of Ministry to authorise variation in characteristics of fixed
           engines.
   78.     Section 78
   79.     Prohibition of bag nets in certain places.
   80.     Regulations as to construction and user of bag nets.
   81.     Section 81
   82.     Offence of affecting flow of water through free gap by alteration
           of bed of river.
   83.     Fishing in or near or obstructing free gaps.
   84.     Operation of eel weir without free gap.
   85.     Rules as to boxes in salmon weirs.
   86.     Construction of guiding walls appurtenant to salmon weirs.
   87.     Section 87
   88.     Section 88
   89.     Section 89
   90.     Penalties for fishing otherwise than by rod and line for salmon or
           trout during the annual close season for salmon and trout.
   91.     Provisions to be observed in relation to fixed engines during the
           annual close season for salmon and trout
   92.     Dismantlement of salmon weirs during the annual close season for
           salmon and trout.
   93.     Removal of nets from banks, etc., of waters during the annual close
           season for salmon and trout.
   94.     Use of nets in inland waters during the annual close season for
           salmon and trout.
   95.     Section 95
   96.     Angling for salmon or for trout during annual close season for
           angling for salmon or annual close season for angling for trout.
   97.     Section 97
   98.     Penalty for fishing otherwise than by rod and line for salmon or
           trout during the weekly close time.
   99.     Provisions to be observed in relation to certain fixed engines
           during the weekly close time.
   100.    Provisions to be observed in relation to salmon weirs during the
           weekly close time.
   101.    Penalty for preventing fish from passing through boxes, etc., during
           the weekly close time.
   102.    Section 102
   103.    Use of nets in inland waters during the weekly close time.
   104.    Section 104
   105.    Section 105
   106.    Extension of sections 90 and 98 to pollen.
   107.    Section 107
   108.    Prohibition of taking etc. eels, otherwise than by rod and line,
           during the annual close season.
   109.    Placing fishing engines for taking eels in eyes, etc., of fishing
           weirs during the annual close season for eels or during the
           daytime.
   110.    Section 110
   111.    Prohibition of purchase, sale, etc., of salmon, trout, pollen and
           brown eels at certain times.
   112.    Restriction on purchase of salmon, trout and eels.
   113.    Section 113
   114.    Grant of licence.
   115.    Renewal of licence.
   116.    Appeal from refusal of licence.
   117.    Separate licence required for each premises, etc.
   118.    Publication of licences.
   119.    Temporary continuance of licence on death.
   120.    Register to be kept by holder of licence.
   122.    Section 122
   123.    Section 123
   124.    Section 124
   126.    Landing etc., fish caught in contravention of regulations.
   127.    Section 127
   128.    Section 128
   129.    Use by fishermen of land adjoining fishing places.
   131.    Section 131
   132.    Application for shell-fish fishery licence.
   133.    Form, conditions, duration and variation of shell-fish fishery
           licence.
   134.    Publication of shell-fish fishery licence.
   135.    Effect of shell-fish fishery licence.
   136.    Offences with respect to licensed shell-fish fishery.
   137.    Suspension or revocation of shell-fish fishery licence.
   138.    Section 138
   160.    Section 160
   161.    Placing fishing engine with intent to prevent fish entering any
           other fishing engine lawfully set.
   162.    Taking or using boats without permission.
   163.    Names of owners to be painted on fishing boats.
   164.    Unauthorised entry on several fishery.
   165.    Unauthorised fishing in private ponds.
   166.    Section 166
   167.    Section 167
   168.    Restriction on powers of officers of the Board.
   170.    Appointment, etc., of private water bailiffs.
   171.    Warrant for exercise of powers.
   172.    Section 172
   173.    Power of justice of the peace to grant warrant to enter certain
           places.
   174.    Boarding and examination of fishing boats.
   175.    Detention of sea-fishing boats, etc.
   176.    Apprehension of offenders.
   177.    Powers in relation to fishing engines, etc.
   178.    Section 178
   179.    Persons using, etc., fishing engines to produce fishing licence
           therefor on demand.
   180.    Procedure for disposal of boat or fishing engine seized in certain
           cases.
   181.    Section 181
   182.    Section 182
   183.    Section 183
   184.    Giving warning to persons unlawfully fishing.
   185.    Indemnification of authorised persons.
   185A.   Section 185A
   186.    Section 186
   188.    Jurisdiction in offences committed at sea.
   189.    Service of documents.
   192.    Additional defence for persons charged with buying, etc., undersized
           fish.
   193.    Detention of offender pending return of warrant of distress.
   195.    Section 195
   196.    Non-obligation of court to pronounce or record forfeiture.
   197.    Power of court to order forfeiture of vehicle.
   198.    Disposal of forfeitures.
   199.    Appeal from refusal of Ministry to annul forfeiture in certain
           cases.
   200.    Forfeiture of licences.
   201.    Section 201
   202.    Continuing offences.
   203.    Disposal of fines.
   204.    Section 204
   205.    Recovery and evidence of expenses.
   206.    Section 206
   207.    Extension to hand lines of provisions relating to angling.
   208.    Section 208
   209.    Section 209
   212.    Application to the Londonderry Area.
   213.    Commencement.
   214.    Short title.

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