Fisheries (Tidal Waters) Act, 1934

Voting by holders of special local licences at elections of conservators.

12.—(1) For the purposes of section 7 of the Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1848, as amended by section 13 of the Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1850, every person to whom a special local licence in respect of particular tidal waters to which this Act applies which are situate in a particular electoral division has been granted in respect of any year shall be deemed to have been licensed under the said Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1848, within such electoral division in such year.

(2) Section 9 of the Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1848, as amended by section 8 of the Fisheries Act, 1925 (No. 32 of 1925), shall apply in respect of every holder of a special local licence for a particular year in respect of particular tidal waters to which this Act applies which are situate in a particular electoral division, in like manner as it applies to every person who shall have paid licence duty under the said Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1848, within and for such electoral division within such year, subject however to the following modification, that is to say, such holder shall be deemed to have paid in respect of every such special local licence held by him for such year in respect of such tidal waters licence duty of an amount equal to the amount of the licence duty which would have been paid by him under the Fisheries Acts, 1842 to 1925, if such special local licence were an ordinary licence authorising the use of the same kind of engine, net, instrument or device as that to which such special local licence relates.