Fisheries (Statute Law Revision) Act, 1949

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Amendment of section 34 of the Act of 1939.

15.—(1) Section 34 of the Act of 1939 is hereby amended in the following respects—

(a) the following subsection shall be substituted for subsection (1)—

“(1) It shall not be lawful for any person to use in the freshwater portion of any river or in any lake any fishing weir, fishing mill dam or fixed engine, unless such fishing weir, fishing mill dam or fixed engine was in existence and was lawfully used during the open season of one or more of the three years 1936, 1937 and 1938.”;

(b) in subsections (2) and (3) the words “fishing weir, fishing mill dam or fixed engine” shall be substituted for the words “weir or other fixed engine” wherever the latter words occur.

(2) Nothing in section 34 of the Act of 1939 shall apply to the use by the Electricity Supply Board of a fishing weir erected by the said Board for the capture of eels.