29/05/1933: Fishery By-Law No. 416 No. 17² Or Dundalk District


BY-LAW No. 416 No. 172 or DUNDALK DISTRICT

I, JOSEPH CONNOLLY, Minister for Lands and Fisheries, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me by the Fisheries Act, 1925 , and of every other power enabling me in this behalf, do MAKE AND ORDAIN THE FOLLOWING BY-LAW :—

(1) It is prohibited to catch or attempt to catch fish with the hands (save as auxiliary to legal fishing) or by snaring or by any means whatsoever save by rod and line or duly licensed and legal engine or other engine used lawfully for the capture of fish in the upper or freshwater portions of the rivers and their tributaries in the No. 172 or Dundalk District.

(2) Each and every person offending against this By-law shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding five pounds ; and every Net used or found contrary to this By-law shall be forfeited.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this By-law in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

(4) This By-law may be cited for all purposes as the Dundalk District By-law No. 416, 1933.

Given under my Seal of Office, this 29th day of May, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-three.

(Signed), JOSEPH CONNOLLY,

Minister for Lands and Fisheries.

NOTE.—Under the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1925 , this By-law will come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after the above date.