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FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 108

Prohibition of taking etc. eels, otherwise than by rod and line, during the annual close season.

108.(1) Subject to subsection (2), and without prejudice to section 109, if
any person

(a)during the annual close season for eels taken otherwise than by means of a
fishing engine to which section 107(a) applies, fishes for, takes or wilfully
kills eels by any method whatsoever; or

(b)during the annual close season for eels taken by means of such a
fishing engine, fishes for, takes or kills eels by means of such a
fishing engine; or

(c)has in his possession during such period as may be prescribed by
regulations, or, if no period is so prescribed, during the period from 31st
March in any year to the then next-following 30th April, any eel other than an
eel that he proves was captured elsewhere than in any part of Northern Ireland
outside the Londonderry Area;

(2) [Paragraph (a)] of subsection (1) shall not apply to the fishing for or
taking of eels by rod and line, or the killing of eels so taken, and paragraph
(c) of that subsection shall not apply to a person who, having any eel in his
possession during the period referred to therein, proves that the eel was
caught by rod and line at a particular place by [a person who was the holder
of a fishing licence authorising him to angle for eels or who was exempted by
byelaws made under section 37(f) from the requirement to hold such a licence]
otherwise than during any period for the time being fixed by byelaws as a
close season for angling for eels.

(3) The Ministry may by order made subject to affirmative resolution provide
that this section shall have effect as if the words in subsection (1)(c) from
"other" onwards were omitted.

© 1966 Crown Copyright

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