Fisheries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1987

Saver for and additional rights given to former life members of Trust.

21.—Section 59 of the Act of 1980 is hereby amended—

(a) in paragraph (b) of subsection (1), by the repeal of all the words from “in case the person is” down to “he is so registered,” and by the substitution of “any regional board” for “the regional board by whom the register is maintained”,

(b) by the repeal of subsection (2), and

(c) in subsection (4) by the substitution of “subsection (1)” for “subsections (1) and (2)”,

and the said subsection (1) of section 59, as so amended, is set out in the Table to this section.

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(1) A person who immediately before the dissolution of the Trust was a life member thereof shall, subject to such restrictions or other requirements, if any, as the Minister considers appropriate for the proper management of the fishery concerned and which are for the time being prescribed for the purposes of this section, be permitted—

(a) to fish in accordance with law for trout or coarse fish in the waters of any fishery transferred to the Central Board by section 35 of this Act for so long as the interest therein so transferred to the Central Board subsists, and

(b) to fish in accordance with law for trout and coarse fish in the waters of any fishery—

(i) owned or occupied by any regional board,

(ii) owned or occupied by the Central Board (whether such fishery was transferred to the Central Board by the said section 35 or was otherwise acquired by the Central Board).