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TRAWLING IN PROHIBITED AREAS PREVENTION ACT 1909

TRAWLING IN PROHIBITED AREAS PREVENTION ACT 1909 - LONG TITLE

An Act to prohibit the landing and selling in the United Kingdom
of fish caught in prohibited areas of the sea adjoining Scotland or
Ireland.
[20th September 1909]
Landing and selling of fish illegally caught prohibited.

TRAWLING IN PROHIBITED AREAS PREVENTION ACT 1909 - SECT 1

1. ... it shall not be lawful to land or sell in the United
Kingdom any fish caught by the methods of fishing known as beam
trawling and otter trawling within prohibited areas as defined in
this Act; ....

TRAWLING IN PROHIBITED AREAS PREVENTION ACT 1909 - SECT 2
Presumption that fish are illegally caught.

2. If a trawling or other vessel shall have been employed

(a)in fishing by the methods and within the areas aforesaid; or

(b)in taking on board fish caught by the methods and within the
areas aforesaid,

Fishery Board to notify.

TRAWLING IN PROHIBITED AREAS PREVENTION ACT 1909 - SECT 3

3. The Fishery Board for Scotland shall from time to time notify
to the Commissioners of Customs and Excise, or to the officer or
officers of Customs and Excise stationed at such ports as may be
deemed necessary, the names, numbers, or other means of
identification of all vessels with regard to which the said Board
are satisfied that on the date or dates specified in such
notification such vessels were employed in fishing by the methods
and within the areas aforesaid, or in taking on board fish caught
by the methods and within the areas aforesaid, and such notification
shall be in such form and regulated by such procedure as may be
prescribed by the Secretary for Scotland, and shall be sufficient
warrant for such Commissioners or officers to enforce the
prohibitions and restrictions provided in section one hereof in the
case of any vessel from which, within two months of the latest
date specified in the notification, fish is landed or sold or
attempted to be landed or sold in the United Kingdom.

TRAWLING IN PROHIBITED AREAS PREVENTION ACT 1909 - SECT 5
Definition of prohibited area.

5. In this Act the expression "prohibited area" means

(1)Any waters within which the methods of fishing known as beam
trawling and otter trawling are prohibited by the Herring Fishery
(Scotland) Act, 1889, or any byelaw made thereunder, but does not
include any such waters within three miles from low-water mark of
any part of the coast of Scotland, unless such waters form part of
an area which, as defined for the purposes of the said Act or
byelaw, extends more than three miles from low-water mark as
aforesaid;

Para.(2) rep. by 1981 NI 7 art. 10(4) sch.5

S.6 rep. by 1981 NI 7 art.10(4) sch.5

TRAWLING IN PROHIBITED AREAS PREVENTION ACT 1909 - SECT 7
Short title.

7. This Act may be cited as the Trawling in Prohibited Areas
Prevention Act, 1909.