27/08/1936: FISHERY

BY-LAW No. 427 OYSTER FISHERIES

BY-LAW No. 427 OYSTER FISHERIES

BLACKSOD BAY.

I, SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN, Minister for Agriculture, by virtue and in exercise of the powers vested in me by Section 28 of the Fisheries Act, 1925 , the Fisheries (Re-distribution of Public Services) Order, 1934, and of every other power enabling me in this behalf, DO MAKE AND ORDAIN THE FOLLOWING BY-LAW :—

(1) It shall not be lawful during the period from the first day of September, 1936, to the thirty-first day of August, 1938, both said days inclusive, to dredge for, take, catch, or destroy any Oyster or Oyster Brood in that part of Blacksod Bay lying inside or to the northward of a straight line from Ardmore Point in the Townland of Ardmore to Claggan Point in the Townland of Srah, including Trawmore Bay, all in the County of Mayo.

(2) Each and every person offending against this By-Law shall forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding Five Pounds, and any Oyster or Oyster Brood taken in contravention thereof shall be forfeited.

(3) The Interpretation Act, 1923 (No. 46 of 1923), applies to the interpretation of this By-Law in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas.

(4) This By-Law may be cited for all purposes as the Blacksod Bay Oyster By-Law No. 427, 1936.

Given under my Seal of Office this Twenty-seventh day of August One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty-six.

SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Agriculture.