Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959
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Appointment of ex officio members in respect of other fisheries acquired by the Electricity Supply Board. |
37.—(1) Section 34 shall not apply in respect of any fishery acquired by the Electricity Supply Board under Part III of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945 (No. 12 of 1945) and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that— | |
(a) if and so long as the said Board is the owner, lessee, or occupier of any such fishery which was, on the 1st day of January, 1931, a several fishery, the following provision shall apply and have effect, that is to say, whenever, on the date on which the fishery rate for any fishery year is struck by the board of conservators for the fishery district in which such fishery is situate, such fishery is valued under the Valuation Acts at not less than fifty pounds, the said Board shall be entitled to nominate one person to be, until the next fishery rate is so struck, an ex officio member, in respect of such fishery of the board of conservators of the district in which such fishery is situate, and | ||
(b) if and so long as the said Board is the owner, lessee, or occupier of two or more such fisheries situate in the same fishery district each of which was, on the 1st day of January, 1931, a several fishery, the following provisions shall apply and have effect, that is to say, whenever on the date on which the fishery rate for any fishery year is struck by the board of conservators for the said fishery district, such fisheries are valued under the Valuation Acts at valuations amounting in the aggregate to not less than fifty pounds, the said Board shall be entitled to nominate one person to be, until the next fishery rate is so struck, an ex officio member, in respect of such fisheries, of the board of conservators of the district in which such fisheries are situate. | ||
(2) Where the Electricity Supply Board is entitled under subsection (1) of this section to nominate two or more ex officio members of a board of conservators, the following provisions shall have effect:— | ||
(a) the said Board shall be entitled to nominate such number (whether one or more than one) of ex officio members of such board of conservators as the said Board shall think proper, but not exceeding the total number of such members which the said Board is entitled under the said subsection to nominate; | ||
(b) every ex officio member of such board of conservators so nominated by the said Board shall be nominated to represent one or more specified fisheries or groups of fisheries in respect of which the said Board is entitled under the said subsection to nominate ex officio members of such board of conservators, but so that the said ex officio members so nominated shall between them represent all the fisheries or groups of fisheries in respect of which the said Board is entitled as aforesaid to nominate ex officio members of such board of conservators; | ||
(c) every ex officio member of such board of conservators so nominated by the said Board shall have and may exercise at meetings of such board of conservators a number of votes equal to the number (whether one or more than one) of fisheries or groups of fisheries which he is nominated under paragraph (b) of this subsection to represent. |