Fisheries Act, 1980
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Electorate for election of elected members of regional boards. |
13.—(1) (a) Subject to section 12 (2) of this Act, every person who is the holder of an ordinary fishing licence or an oyster fishing licence which is valid for a particular election year and who is ordinarily resident in the State on the date fixed under this Act for the receipt of nominations at an election to be held under this Act in that year shall be entitled to vote at the election to be held in that year as regards the regional board by which the licence is issued. | |
(b) (i) Subject to section 12 (2) of this Act and to subparagraph (ii) of this paragraph, every person who for the time being is registered in a Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers (other than a person who is so registered as non-voting) and who is ordinarily resident in the State on the date fixed under this Act for the receipt of nominations at an election to be held under this Act as regards the regional board by which the register is maintained, shall be entitled to vote at the election. | ||
(ii) A person shall be entitled to vote pursuant to this paragraph at an election under this Act which is not the election first held as regards a regional board if, and only if, he has been registered in the register maintained by the board to which the election related for a continuous period of not less than three years ending on the day fixed under this Act for the receipt of nominations at the election. | ||
(2) Every person who is the holder of a special local licence which is valid for a particular election year and who is ordinarily resident in the State on the date fixed under this Act for the receipt of nominations at an election to be held under this Act in that year shall, subject to section 12 (2) of this Act, be entitled to vote at the election in that election year of elected members of the regional board within whose fisheries region the special tidal waters to which the licence relates are situate. | ||
(3) Where a person who is the rated occupier of a fishery has, as regards the fishery, for the time being complied with the requirements (if any) regarding the payment of fishery rates and contained in regulations made by the Minister for the purpose of this subsection, the following provisions shall have effect: | ||
(a) subject to section 12 (2) of this Act, such person or his agent duly appointed under section 328 of the Principal Act shall be entitled to vote at an election of elected members of the regional board within whose fisheries region the fishery is situate, and | ||
(b) in case regulations made for the purposes of this subsection are for the time being in force, the production of the receipt for the relevant fishery rate shall be sufficient evidence of the right of such person or his attorney or agent to vote at such election. | ||
(4) References in this Act to the electorate of a fisheries region for an election year shall be construed as references to the persons who are, by virtue of this section, entitled to vote at the election of elected members of the regional board for that region to be held in that year. |