26/01/1940: Fishery By-Law No. 440. No. 1 Or Dublin District.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (FISHERIES BRANCH). FISHERIES ACTS, 1842 TO 1939. ________________________________

BY-LAW No. 440. No. 1 or Dublin District.

RIVER LIFFEY.

FISHING AT LEIXLIP FALLS

I, SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by the Fisheries Act, 1925 , the Fisheries (Re-distribution of Public Services) Order, 1934, and of every other power me in this behalf enabling, do hereby make the following By-Law, that is to say :—

(1) This By-Law may be cited as the River Liffey (Leixlip Falls) By-Law No. 440, 1940.

(2) This By-Law shall come into operation on the 1st day of February, 1940.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1937 (No. 38 of 1937), applies to this By-Law.

(4) It is hereby prohibited to catch or attempt to catch fish or to use any instrument capable of catching fish in that part of the River Liffey at Leixlip, Co. Kildare, between an imaginary line drawn across the river from the south-west corner of the building known as the Salmon Leap Mills and in line with the south gable of the said building, and a second imaginary line across the river parallel to the said first imaginary line, such second imaginary line being drawn from a point which is twenty feet downstream from the north-west corner of the wall of the said building fronting the tail race and which lies on an imaginary line representing an extension of the said wall.

(5) It is also prohibited to put, leave or have in possession in or on the banks of the said part of the River Liffey any fishing rod, gaff or other instrument used or capable of being used for the capture of fish.

(6) Each and every person offending against this By-Law shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding Five Pounds, and any rod, gaff or other instrument used contrary to this By-Law shall be forfeited.

Given under my Official Seal this 26th day of January, 1940.

(Signed) SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.

Note.—The Fisheries Act, 1925 , as amended, provides that any person aggrieved by this By-Law, may, within one fortnight after the date of this publication appeal against the same in accordance with Section 10 of the Courts of Justice Act, 1936 (No. 48 of 1936).

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