Statutory Rule 2002 No. 274

      Fisheries (Amendment No. 2) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2002


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    STATUTORY RULES OF NORTHERN IRELAND


    2002 No. 274

    FISHERIES

    Fisheries (Amendment No. 2) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2002

      Made 2nd September 2002  
      Coming into operation 1st October 2002  

    The Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 26(1), 37(1) and 70 of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966[1] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, with the approval of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure[2], hereby makes the following Byelaws:

    Citation and commencement
         1. These Byelaws may be cited as the Fisheries (Amendment No. 2) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2002.

    Amendment of the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997
        
    2. The Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997[3] shall be amended as provided in Byelaws 3 to 7.

    Issue of drift net licences
         3. In Byelaw 8 for the words "Subject to Byelaws 9 and 10" there shall be substituted the words "Subject to Byelaws 9, 10 and 10A".

        
    4. After Byelaw 10 there shall be inserted the following Byelaw -

           " 10A. The Board shall not issue a drift net licence to any person under Byelaws 8 to 10 in a case where a person who held a drift net licence has undertaken, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, to make no further applications for a fishing licence to use a drift net to fish for salmon.".

    Issue of tidal draft net licences
        
    5. For Byelaw 16 there shall be substituted the following Byelaw -

    Revocation and issue of fishing licences
        
    6. In Byelaw 24 -

          " (2) Subject to the provisions of these Byelaws, where, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, a person who holds a fishing licence consents to the revocation of the fishing licence and undertakes to make no further applications for a fishing licence of a particular class, the Board shall revoke that licence or (as the case may require) refuse to renew it and shall refuse to issue such person a fishing licence of the class which he has undertaken not to apply for.".

    Appeal to the Department against the refusal of the Board to issue or restore a fishing licence
        
    7. After Byelaw 29 there shall be inserted the following Byelaw -



    Sealed with the Common Seal of the Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland on


    29th August 2002.

    L.S.


    Dr. D. Roberts
    Chairman
    L.S.


    K. A. Simpson (Mrs.)
    Secretary


    The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure hereby approves the foregoing Byelaws.



    Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on


    2nd September 2002.

    L.S.


    N. Carson
    A senior officer of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure


    EXPLANATORY NOTE

    (This note is not part of the Byelaws.)


    These Byelaws amend the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997 by -

      (a) prohibiting the Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland ("the Board") issuing a drift net licence in a case where a person who held a drift net licence has undertaken, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure ("the Department"), to make no further applications for a fishing licence to use a drift net to fish for salmon or sea trout (Byelaw 4);

      (b) reducing the maximum number of tidal draft net licences which may be issued in any calendar year from 6 to 2 (Byelaw 5);

      (c) by requiring the Board to revoke a fishing licence or to refuse to renew a fishing licence where, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, the person who held it consented to its revocation; the Board is also required not to issue a person a fishing licence of any class which he has undertaken not to apply for (Byelaw 6);

      (d) disapplying Byelaws 25 to 29 (appeals) where -

        (i) a person has, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, consented to the revocation of a licence or (as the case may be) undertaken not to make any further applications for a fishing licence of the class the issue or renewal of which has been applied for (Byelaw 7);

        (ii) the Board does not, by virtue of these Byelaws, have the power to issue a drift net licence (Byelaw 7).


    Notes:

    [1] 1966 c. 17 (N.I.); section 26(1) was amended by Article 8(3) of the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991, (S.I. 1991/1466 (N.I. 13)) and by section 5 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (2001 c. 4 (N.I.)) and section 37 was amended by Article 9 of the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and by section 6 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001back

    [2] Functions transferred by virtue of S.R. 1999 No. 481 Article 3 and Schedule 1back

    [3] S.R. 1997 No. 425 as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 12, S.R. 2000 No. 364, S.R. 2001 No. 433 and S.R. 2002 No. 11back



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