Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1991

Election of members of regional boards.

14.—(1) (a) Every ordinary member of a society for a particular year shall, if ordinarily resident in Ireland, be entitled to vote at an election held in that year for members of the regional board for the region which includes the society's area but, in the case of the election for any year subsequent to the first election after the commencement of this Act, only if he had also been an ordinary member for any two other years since the previous election.

(b) Every former life member of Iontaobhas Iascaigh Intíre Incorportha (The Inland Fisheries Trust Incorporated) who registered under section 58 (4) of the Fisheries Act, 1980 , in the register of a regional board and who is ordinarily resident in Ireland on the date fixed under the Fisheries Act, 1980 , for the receipt of nominations at an election held for members of the regional board by which the register is maintained, shall be entitled to vote at that election.

(c) This subsection shall not prejudice the operation of section 13 of the Fisheries Act, 1980 .

(2) A person entitled to vote by virtue of this section shall be entitled to vote once and once only at an election notwithstanding the fact that he may also be a rate-payer, a member of another society in the same region, or be entitled to vote under section 12 (2) of the Fisheries Act, 1980 , as amended by section 20 of the Fisheries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1987 .

(3) For the purposes of section 12 (3) (b) (i) of the Fisheries Act, 1980 (providing for elections to regional boards), all persons who are members of a society in a particular region as trout anglers shall constitute one class and all persons who are members of any such society as coarse fish anglers shall constitute one class.

(4) Section 13 of the Fisheries Act, 1980 , is hereby amended by the substitution of “Ireland” for “the State” wherever that expression occurs.