Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959

Salmon dealers licences and salmon exporters' licences.

159.—(1) Where—

(a) a person to whom a certificate of fitness has been granted applies, within twenty-eight days after such grant, to the board of conservators for a fishery district for the issue to him of a licence authorising him to carry on the business of selling salmon and trout at any specified place or places within such fishery district, and

(b) there is sent with the application—

(i) such certificate of fitness, and

(ii) the sum of one pound, being the excise duty imposed, by section 42 of the Finance Act, 1925 (No. 28 of 1925), on a salmon dealer's licence,

then, subject to section 43 of the said Act, such board of conservators may, through its clerk, issue to such person such licence.

(2) Where—

(a) a person to whom a certificate of fitness has been granted applies, within twenty-eight days after such grant, to the board of conservators for a fishery district for the issue to him of a licence authorising him to carry on the business of exporting for sale salmon and trout from any specified place or places within such fishery district,

(b) there is sent with the application—

(i) such certificate of fitness, and

(ii) the sum of one pound, being the excise duty imposed by subsection (1) of section 12 of the Finance Act, 1940 (No. 14 of 1940) on a salmon exporter's licence,

then, subject to subsection (4) of the said section 12, such board of conservators may, through its clerk, issue to such person such licence.

(3) Every application for a Part X licence to a board of conservators shall—

(a) be made in writing to the clerk of such board,

(b) be in the prescribed form and contain the prescribed particulars.

(4) Every Part X licence shall be in the prescribed form.

(5) Every Part X licence shall, unless it is previously terminated, continue in force until the 31st day of December of the year in which it was issued and shall then expire.