Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1999

Amendment of Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1991.

28.—(1) Section 5 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1991 , is hereby amended by the substitution of the following for subsection (4):

“(4) In addition to the elected members of the management committee of a society, the Minister may appoint not more than 2 persons to be members, of whom one shall be a member of the staff of the regional board of the fisheries region of which the society's area consists or forms part appointed on the nomination of that board.”.

(2) If the first election of members to a management committee of a fisheries co-operative society after the commencement of this section is to be held in the year 2000 but before 1 October of that year, then, subject to rule 9(4) of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1991 (Fisheries Co-operative Societies) Rules, 1992, ( S.I. No. 127 of 1992 ) but notwithstanding any other provision of any enactment or instrument made under an enactment, the persons entitled to vote at that election, to nominate a candidate for election and to accept nomination and stand as a candidate for election, shall be determined as if the election date were the third Tuesday in December, 1999.

(3) The Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1991 , is hereby amended by the substitution of the following for section 13:

“13.—(1) The Minister may, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, make payments to the regional board of whose region a fisheries co-operative society's area consists or forms part to reimburse the board to such extent as the Minister, with the approval of the Minister for Finance, thinks fit, for any expenditure of the board in making payments to the society towards those funds disbursed by the society for the development in the public interest of trout or coarse fish fisheries in specified areas in the region.

(2) A regional board shall keep in its accounts a separate record of payments to a society and shall provide to the Minister such information relating to such records as and when the Minister may require it.”.

(4) A person holding office as an additional member of a society under section 5(4) of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1991 , immediately before the commencement of this section shall continue to hold that office until the day after the election of the regional board of the fisheries region of which the society's area consists or forms part first held after that commencement, unless he or she sooner resigns that office or his or her membership is otherwise terminated in accordance with that Act as amended by this Act.