Fisheries (Statute Law Revision) Act, 1956

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Weekly close time in rivers in which the Electricity Supply Board owns a fishery or a fishing right.

14.—(1) This section applies to any river in which the Electricity Supply Board owns a fishery or a fishing right.

(2) In the Acts, the expression “the weekly close time” in relation to any river to which this section applies means, subject to subsection (3) of this section, the period commencing at 6 o'clock a.m. on Saturday and ending at 6 o'clock a.m. on the next following Monday.

(3) The Minister may by regulations vary as he thinks proper the weekly close time fixed by subsection (2) of this section in respect of any river to which this section applies, but shall not by any such regulations increase the said weekly close time to more than seventy-two hours nor reduce it to less than forty-eight hours.