Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959
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Appointment of water keepers by persons interested in fisheries. |
294.—(1) Each of the following persons— | |
(a) any person interested in the preservation of the fish of any river or lake, | ||
(b) any persons who have united themselves into a society for the preservation of any fishery in any river or lake, | ||
(c) the owner of any fishery in any river or lake, | ||
(d) the owner of any salmon fishery on the sea coast, | ||
may, from time to time, by instrument in writing in the form set out in the Sixth Schedule to this Act, appoint any person to be a water keeper for the protection of the fisheries on such part of the sea coast or in any such lake or river or the tributaries thereof. | ||
(2) A person appointed to be a water keeper under this section shall not act in that capacity until his appointment is confirmed (which confirmation shall be effected by endorsing the instrument of appointment) by any District Justice within whose district such water keeper is appointed to act. | ||
(3) A District Justice may upon complaint made to him revoke the appointment of a person appointed under this section as a water keeper to act within the district of such Justice, and thereupon the appointment of such person as a water keeper shall be determined. | ||
(4) An instrument appointing a person to be a water keeper under this section shall be subject to a stamp duty of five shillings. | ||
(5) If any person acts as a private water keeper without having his appointment confirmed under subsection (2) of this section or after his appointment has been revoked under subsection (3) of this section, such person shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds. |