Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959
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Construction of fishing weirs by the Electricity Supply Board. |
101.—(1) Whenever the Electricity Supply Board acquires under Part III of the Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945 (No. 12 of 1945) every fishery (if any) and every fishing right (if any) in a river, the said Board may, with the consent of the Minister and notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, construct in such river a fishing weir for the purposes of all or any of the fisheries (if any) and fishing rights (if any) so acquired, and may thereafter maintain the fishing weir so constructed. | |
(2) Whenever the Electricity Supply Board acquires under or by virtue of the Electricity Supply (Amendment) Act, 1945 , a fishing weir, the said Board may, with the consent of the Minister and notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, do either of the following things:— | ||
(a) maintain such fishing weir and, for the purpose of such maintenance, reconstruct or repair such fishing weir, or | ||
(b) construct on the site of such fishing weir or on a different site a new fishing weir in lieu of the fishing weir so acquired and thereafter maintain such new fishing weir. |