Fisheries (Amendment No. 2) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2002
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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 -
Issue of tidal draft net licences
(2) An application for such a licence shall be received on or before 1st March in the calendar year to which the licence is to relate. (3) Where an application for a tidal draft net licence is received from a person to whom such a licence was issued at any time during the period of 3 years ending on the last 31st December before the date of the receipt of the application, such an application shall, subject to paragraph (5), be deemed to have been received before an application received from any other person. (4) Where the number of applications for tidal draft net licences received on or before 1st March in any calendar year exceeds 2, the licences shall, subject to paragraphs (3) and (5), be issued according to the order in which applications for those licences were received. (5) Paragraphs (3) and (4) shall not apply to, or in relation to, an application from a person who has undertaken, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, to make no further applications for a fishing licence to use a tidal draft net to fish for salmon.". Revocation and issue of fishing
licences
(b) after that paragraph there shall be added the following paragraph -
Appeal to the Department against the refusal of the Board to issue
or restore a fishing licence
(2) Byelaws 25 to 29 shall not apply where, by virtue of Byelaw 10A, the Board does not have the power to issue a drift net licence under Byelaws 8 to 10.".
(This note is not part of the Byelaws.) These Byelaws amend the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997 by -
(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 -
(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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