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FISHERIES ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1966 - SECT 179

Persons using, etc., fishing engines to produce fishing licence therefor on demand.

179.(1) If any person using [at any place] a fishing engine for which a
licence is required under this Act, or having such a fishing engine erected or
in fishing order ... in his possession in or near any fishing place ... fails
on demand to produce to an authorised person a fishing licence [by or by
virtue of which he is authorised to use that fishing engine at that place], he
shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Where a person is charged with an offence under this section consisting of
a failure to produce a fishing licence for a fishing engine to which
subsection (1) applies, being a fishing engine in his possession, it shall be
a good defence to prove that he had the fishing engine in his possession as a
manufacturer or seller thereof and not for the purpose of using it.

(3) A person shall not be charged with an offence under this section
consisting of a failure to produce a fishing licence for a fishing engine in
any of the circumstances referred to in subsection (1) if upon demand being
made by an authorised person for the production of a fishing licence under
that subsection, the first-mentioned person

(a)then and there gives to the authorised person his name and address and any
evidence of his identity then available and also gives a reasonable
explanation of his failure to produce the fishing licence at that time; and

(b)as soon as practicable thereafter, and in accordance with any reasonable
requirement then communicated to him by the authorised person, produces to the
authorised person or to any other person designated by him

(i)a licence authorising the first-mentioned person to use the fishing engine
at that place and time [or, if the fishing engine is a rod and line which he
was using to fish for fish of any kind, and by reason of his age he was at
that time exempted by byelaws made under section 37(f) from the requirement to
hold a fishing licence for a rod and line to fish for fish of that kind,
evidence of his age]; and

(ii)evidence of the identity of the first-mentioned person.

[(4) A person who is guilty of an offence under subsection (1) by reason of a
contravention of that subsection which consists only of the use or possession
of a rod and line shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not
exceeding [#200.]]

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