Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945

Appointment of ex-officio members of boards of conservators.

19.—(1) Section 6 of the Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1848, as amended by section 7 of the Fisheries Act, 1925 (No. 32 of 1925), shall not apply in respect of any fishery acquired by the Board under this Part of this Act, and in lieu of the said section 6 as so amended it is hereby enacted that—

(a) if and so long as the Board is the owner, lessee, or occupier of any such fishery which was, on the 1st day of January, 1931, a several or exclusive fishery within the meaning of the said section 6 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 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 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 or exclusive fishery within the meaning of the said section 6 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 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 Board is entitled under the foregoing subsection of this section to nominate two or more ex-officio members of a board of conservators, the following provisions shall have effect, that is to say:—

(a) the 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 Board shall think proper, but not exceeding the total number of such members which the Board is entitled under the said subsection to nominate;

(b) every ex-officio member of such board of conservators so nominated by the Board shall be nominated to represent one or more specified fisheries or groups of fisheries in respect of which the 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 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 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 the next preceding paragraph of this subsection to represent.

(3) A person nominated under this section to be an ex-officio member of a board of conservators shall, subject and without prejudice to the next preceding subsection of this section, have and may exercise as such member all the rights and privileges which are conferred by section 6 of the Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1848, on a person who is an ex-officio member of a board of conservators under that section.