Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959
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Ex officio Members. Appointment of ex officio members in respect of the Shannon fisheries. |
36.—(1) Section 34 shall not apply in respect of any fishery for the time being included in the Shannon fisheries (within the meaning of the Shannon Fisheries Act, 1935 (No. 4 of 1935)) and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that— | |
(a) if and so long as the Electricity Supply Board is the owner, lessee or occupier of any such fishery which was on the 1st day of January, 1931, a several fishery and was on that date valued under the Valuation Acts at not less than fifty pounds, the said Board shall be entitled to nominate one person to be an ex officio member in respect of that fishery of the board of conservators for the fishery district in which such fishery is situate, | ||
(b) if and so long as the said Board is the owner, lessee or occupier of a number of such fisheries situate in the same fishery district which were, on the 1st day of January, 1931, several fisheries and were on that date owned, held or occupied by the same person and were on that date valued under the Valuation Acts at valuations amounting in the aggregate to not less than fifty pounds, the said Board shall be entitled to nominate one person to be an ex officio member in respect of such fisheries of the board of conservators of such fishery district. | ||
(2) Where the Electricity Supply Board is entitled under subsection (1) of this section to nominate two or more ex officio members of a board of conservators, the said Board may, in lieu of nominating such two or more members, nominate one person only to be an ex officio member of such board of conservators, and in such cases such one person shall have and may exercise at meetings of such board of conservators a number of votes equal to the number of ex officio members of such board of conservators which the said Board is for the time being entitled to nominate under the said subsection. |