Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1958

Right of holders of oyster fishing licences to vote at election of conservators and scale of votes.

7.—(1). Every person, who is the holder of one or more oyster fishing licences which or each of which is valid for a particular election year and is issued in a particular electoral division, shall be entitled to vote in person at the election of conservators to be held in that year for that electoral division and shall have thereat a vote or votes according to the scale set out in subsection (1) of section 8 of the Act of 1925.

(2) A person who is entitled by virtue of subsection (1) of this section to vote at any election of conservators for an electoral division to be held in a particular election year shall—

(a) be deemed, for the purpose of the choosing of the chairman to preside at the meeting for such election, a person who has paid licence duty for such year in such electoral division, and

(b) be eligible to be chosen as chairman of such meeting.