Fisheries Act, 1939

Payments by Minister in lieu of fishery rate.

95.—(1) No fishery rate shall be payable by the Minister in respect of any vested fishery.

(2) Subject to the provisions of this section the Minister may, if he so thinks fit, in respect of each vested fishery, as on and from the payment day next following the date of vesting, pay in any fishery year to the board of conservators for the fishery district in which such fishery is situate in lieu of fishery rate a half-yearly sum calculated as a moiety of the fishery rate for the current fishery year on the poor law valuation existing at the date when the fishery rate is made.

(3) Where a vested fishery is for the time being an unused fishery no payment in lieu of fishery rate shall be made by the Minister in respect of such fishery after the commencement of the fishery year next after the date on which the Minister gives notice to the board of conservators within whose fishery district such fishery is situate of his intention to refrain from using such fishery.

(4) Where a vested fishery which has ceased to be worked by the Minister is subsequently worked by the Minister, payment in lieu of fishery rate may be made on and from the payment day next following the date on which such fishery is subsequently worked.

(5) Where a vested fishery is leased by the Minister under this Part of this Act, no payment in lieu of fishery rate shall be made by the Minister in respect of such fishery for any period during which any person is under an obligation to pay fishery rate in respect of such fishery.

(6) For the purposes of this section each of the following dates in each year shall be a payment day—

(a) the 1st day of April;

(b) the 1st day of September.