S.I. No. 343/1984 - Salmon, Eel and Oyster Fishing Licences (Alteration of Licence Duties) Order, 1984.Eh>

I, PADDY O'TOOLE, Minister for Fisheries and Forestry, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 68 (as amended by section 4 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1976 (No. 23 of 1976), section 279 (2) (as amended by the said section 4) of the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959 (No. 14 of 1959), and the Fisheries (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order, 1977 ( S.I. No. 30 of 1977 ) (as adapted by the Fisheries (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order, 1978 ( S.I. No. 195 of 1978 )), hereby make the following order with respect to which, pursuant to sections 68 (7) and 279 (4) (both inserted by section 3 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1976 ) of the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959 , a draft has been laid before each House of the Oireachtas and a resolution approving of the draft has been passed by each such House:

(1) This Order may be cited as the Salmon, Eel and Oyster Fishing Licences (Alteration of Licence Duties) Order, 1984.

(2) In this Order "the Principal Act" means the Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959 (No. 14 of 1959).

(3) The ordinary licence duty in respect of a salmon rod ordinary licence of a class specified in column (2) of Part I of the Schedule to this Order at any reference number is hereby altered with effect from the 1st day of January, 1985, to the sum specified in column (3) of the said Part I at that reference number.

(4) The ordinary licence duty in respect of an ordinary fishing licence authorising the use of a fishing engine of a kind specified in column (2) of Part II of the Schedule to this Order at any reference number is hereby altered with effect from the 1st day of January, 1985, to the sum specified in column (3) of the said Part II at that reference number.

(5) The licence duty on each oyster fishing licence is hereby altered with effect from the 1st day of January, 1985, to thirty-four pounds and fifty pence.

SCHEDULE

PART I

Ref. No.	Classes of Salmon Rod Ordinary Licences	Ordinary Licence Duty
(1)	(2)	(3)
		£
1.	Salmon Rod (annual) ordinary licences, other than Salmon Rod (annual) ordinary licences to which sub-section (2) of section 68 of the Principal Act applies	17.00
2.	Salmon Rod (annual) ordinary licences to which sub-section (2) of section 68 of the Principal Act applies	11.50
3.	Salmon Rod (annual) (district) ordinary licences, other than Salmon Rod (annual) (district) ordinary licences to which subsection (3) of section 68 of the Principal Act applies	8.00
4.	Salmon Rod (annual) (district) ordinary licences to which subsection (3) of section 68 of the Principal Act applies	5.00
5.	Salmon Rod (seven day) ordinary licences	6.00
6.	Salmon Rod (late season) ordinary licences	11.50
7.	Salmon Rod (late season) (district) ordinary licences	6.00

PART II

Ref. No.	Kind of Engine	Annual Licence Duty
(1)	(2)	(3)
1.	Stake net or fly net	132.00
2.	Bag net	75.00
3.	Head weir	25.00
4.	Draft net	75.00
5.	Drift net	132.00
6.	Snap net	30.00
7.	Pole net	11.50
8.	Loop net	5.00
9.	Box for taking salmon in a fishing weir or a fishing mill dam.	51.00
10.	Eye, gap or basket for taking eels in or on a fishing weir or a fishing mill dam.	34.50
11.	Eel trap as used under licence in No. 17 ¹ or Drogheda District in the Eastern Fisheries Region and in No. 13 or Ballyshannon District in the Northern Fisheries Region.	57.50
12.	Long line for eels	34.50
13.	Coghill net for eels	34.50

PART II

Ref. No.	Kind of Engine	Annual Licence Duty
(1)	(2)	(3)
14.	Fyke nets for eels	34.50 for a train of twenty nets or less together with, in case the train is one of more than twenty nets, 170 new pence for each net in excess of twenty.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 18th day of December, 1984.

PADDY O'TOOLE,

Minister for Fisheries and Forestry.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

This Order prescribes the rates of salmon, eel and oyster fishing licence duties payable from 1 January, 1985.