Fisheries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1987

Amendment of section 303 of Principal Act.

15.—Section 303 (as amended by the Act of 1980) of the Principal Act is hereby amended by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (4):

“(4A) Where a person is charged with an offence under this section consisting of a failure to produce an ordinary licence for a scheduled engine in his possession, it shall be a good defence, to so much of the charge as relates to a failure to produce an ordinary licence for a trout rod or a coarse fish rod, to prove that he is a person to whom subsection (2) of section 66 (as amended by the Fisheries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1987) did apply when the demand to so produce was made.

(4B) This section shall not apply in respect of the use of a trout rod or a coarse fish rod where the person concerned has not reached his eighteenth birthday or has reached his sixty-sixth birthday if, on a demand being made by any member of the Garda Síochána or authorised person in accordance with subsection (2) of this section to produce an ordinary licence for the trout rod or the coarse fish rod, the person concerned produces evidencewhich satisfies such member of the Garda Síochána or authorised person that he is a person to whom subsection (2) of section 66 (as amended by the Fisheries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1987) applies.”.