Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945

Prohibition of snap nets.

25.—(1) The Minister for Agriculture, if he so thinks fit on the application of the Board, may by order prohibit the issue of licences under the Fisheries Acts, 1842 to 1944, for fishing with a snap net in the tidal waters (within the meaning of those Acts) of any river in which the Board has acquired a fishery or fishing right under this Part of this Act.

(2) Whenever the Minister for Agriculture has made an order under the foregoing subsection of this section, no licence shall be issued under the Fisheries Acts, 1842 to 1944, in contravention of such order.