Fisheries (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 No. 397


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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2012 No. 397

Fisheries

Fisheries (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012

Made

29th October 2012

Coming into operation

1st December 2012

The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (1), makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 26(1) of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 (2) and now vested in it (3).

Citation and commencement

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Fisheries (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 and come into operation on 1st December 2012.

Amendment of the Fisheries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

2. The Fisheries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 (4) are amended in accordance with regulations 3 and 4.

Annual close season for commercial fishing

3. In regulation 82(1) for "the period beginning on 17th March in any year and ending on 17th December in that year, both dates inclusive" substitute "the period beginning on 1st March in any year and ending on 30th November in that year, both dates inclusive".

Rainbow trout waters where there is no close season for angling for rainbow trout

4. In Schedule 6, under the heading County Down and immediately before the entry relating to Lough Creevy, insert "Cleland's Lake, Crossgar".

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on 29th October 2012.

Legal seal

M. Cory

A senior officer of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Fisheries Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.

Regulation 3 amends the annual close season for the taking of coarse fish, except pollen, on Upper and Lower Lough Erne by means of a single wall set net or trammel net.

Regulation 4 adds Cleland's Lake, Crossgar to the rainbow trout waters mentioned in Schedule 6 to which the annual close season for angling for rainbow trout prescribed in regulation 73(1) does not apply.

(1)

Established by the Departments (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1)), Article 3(1)(b).

(2)

1966 c. 17 (N.I.); section 26 was substituted by section 1(3) and paragraph 3(7) of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Public Authorities (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 (2009 c.3 (N.I.)).

(3)

S.R 1999 No. 481, Article 3 and Schedule 1.

(4)

S.R. 2003 No. 525 as amended by S.R. 2004 No. 504, S.R. 2005 No. 548, S.R. 2006 No. 517, S.R. 2007 No. 471, S.R. 2008 No.318, S.R. 2008 No. 475, S.R. 2010 No. 166, S.R. 2010 No. 196 and S.R. 2011 No. 324. By virtue of section 1(3)(b) of, and paragraph 3(1)(c) of Part 2 of Schedule 1 to, the Public Authorities (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 references to "byelaws" in the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966 are now to "regulations".


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