FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 111 Prohibition of purchase, sale, etc., of salmon, trout, pollen and brown eels at certain times.

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FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 111

Prohibition of purchase, sale, etc., of salmon, trout, pollen and brown eels at certain times.

111.(1) If any person buys, sells, offers or exposes for sale or has in his
possession for sale

(a)any salmon or trout at any time during the period from 15th September in
any year to 31st January in the next-following year; or

(b)any pollen at any time during the period from 7th November in any year to
31st January in the then next-following year; or

(c)any brown eels at any time during the period from 16th January in any year
to the date in that year of the commencement of the period mentioned in
section 108(1)(c);

(2) Subsection (1) shall not apply to any person buying, selling, offering or
exposing for sale or having in his possession for sale any fish of a kind
mentioned in paragraph (a) or, as the case may be, (b) or (c) of that
subsection which he proves was supplied by

(a)a person who was, or whom he believed on reasonable grounds to be, the
holder of a fish culture licence granted under section 11; or

(b)the Ministry.

(3) For the purposes of this section a person shall be deemed to have a salmon
or trout or, as the case may be, a pollen or a brown eel in his possession for
sale if it is found at any place, or on or in any vehicle, specified in a
dealer's licence issued to him under the succeeding provisions of this Part,
unless he satisfies the court that it was not his intention to sell it.

(4) The Board may by byelaws substitute for the period mentioned in paragraph
(a) or (b) of subsection (1), and the Ministry may by regulations substitute
for the period mentioned in paragraph (c) of that subsection such other period
as may be specified in the byelaws or, as the case may be, the regulations.

(5) Notwithstanding anything in section 19(2) or 26(4), any byelaws or
regulations made under subsection (4), shall be subject to affirmative
resolution.]

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FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 111