Fisheries Act, 1925

Power of Minister to alter, etc., fishery districts and electoral divisions.

27.—(1) The Minister may by order do all or any of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) alter the boundaries of any fishery district or electoral division subsisting at the date of the order,

(b) unite any two or more fishery districts or electoral divisions so subsisting,

(c) subdivide any fishery district or electoral division so subsisting,

(d) create new fishery districts,

(e) create new electoral divisions in fishery districts subsisting at the date of the order,

(f) divide any fishery district created (whether by union, subdivision or otherwise) under this section into two or more electoral divisions,

(g) appoint the number of conservators (but not more than nine nor less than three) to be elected for any electoral division created (whether by union, subdivision, division or otherwise) under this section or the boundaries of which are altered under this section, and either provide for the election of or himself nominate persons to act as such conservators until the next triennial elections.

(2) Whenever the Minister by an order made under this section creates (whether by union, subdivision, or otherwise) any new fishery district or electoral division or alters the boundaries of any then subsisting fishery district or electoral division, he shall by such order appoint the boundaries or new boundaries (as the case may be) of such district or division, and shall annex to such order a suitable map showing such boundaries or new boundaries.

(3) Whenever the Minister by an order made under this section alters the boundaries of or subdivides any fishery district or unites two or more fishery districts, or creates a new fishery district, the Minister may by the same order or by a subsequent order (which he is hereby authorised to make) direct that all or any specified part of the moneys and other assets which at the date of the order are in the hands of the board of conservators of any fishery district affected by the order shall, subject to the liabilities of such board be disposed of in such manner as the Minister thinks proper to direct and specify in such order, and when any such order is made the moneys and other assets to which it relates shall, subject to the said liabilities, be disposed of accordingly.

(4) Every order made by the Minister under this section shall, as soon as may be after it is made, be published (without the map (if any) annexed thereto but with a statement of where such map (if any) may be inspected) in the Iris Oifigiúil and in one or more newspapers circulating in the fishery districts affected by the order, and a copy of such order and of the map (if any) annexed thereto shall be deposited with the Clerk of the Peace for every county and the District Court Clerk of every district which, or any part of which, is affected by the order, and in every station of the Gárda Síochána within the fishery districts affected by the order.