FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 109 Placing fishing engines for taking eels in eyes, etc., of fishing weirs during the annual close season for eels or during the daytime.

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FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 109

Placing fishing engines for taking eels in eyes, etc., of fishing weirs during the annual close season for eels or during the daytime.

109.(1) If any person places or hangs any fishing engine for taking eels in an
eye or gap of any fishing weir during

(a)the annual close season for eels taken by means of a fishing engine to
which section 107(a) applies; or

(b)the daytime, within any period that is not the annual close season for eels
taken by a fishing engine to which section 107(a) applies,

(2) Where a person is charged with an offence under this section and it is
proved that at a particular time a fishing engine for taking eels was placed
or was hanging in an eye or gap of a fishing weir, and that that person was at
that time the occupier of the fishing weir, then it shall, until the contrary
is proved, be presumed that the fishing engine was so placed or hung by him.

Prohibition of sale, etc., of salmon or trout unlawfully captured.

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FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 109