15/01/1931: FISHERY

BY-LAW No. 407 No. 2 or WEXFORD DISTRICT

BY-LAW No. 407 No. 2 or WEXFORD DISTRICT

RIVER SLANEY AND TRIBUTARIES

PROHIBITION OF NETS IN FRESH WATER

I, FIONAN O LOINGSIGH, Minister for Lands and Fisheries, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me by the Fisheries Act, 1925 , and of every other power enabling me in this behalf, do MAKE AND ORDAIN THE FOLLOWING BY-LAW :—

(1) It is prohibited to use any net for the purpose of taking or with intent to take fish, save landing nets used solely as auxiliary to fishing legally with rod and line, in the freshwater part of the River Slaney or its tributaries, in the No. 2 or Wexford District.

(2) It is prohibited to put, leave, or have in possession any fishing net or any net mounted so as to be capable of being used for fishing, except a landing net for use as aforesaid, in or on the freshwater part of the River Slaney or its tributaries or in any place near to the same.

(3) Each and every person offending against this By-law shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding five pounds ; and every net used or found contrary to this By-law shall be forfeited.

(4) The Interpretation Act, 1923 , applies to the interpretation of this By-law in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

(5) This By-law may be cited for all purposes as the River Slaney By-law, No. 407, 1931.

Given under my Seal of Office this 15th day of January, One Thousand nine hundred and Thirty-one.

(Signed) FIONÁN O LOÍNGSIGH,

Minister for Lands and Fisheries.

NOTE.—Under the provisions of the Fisheries Act, 1925 , this By-law will come into operation on the twenty-eighth day after the above date.