Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945
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Preservation, management, etc., of fisheries by the Board. |
16.—(1) Whenever the Board acquires a fishery or fishing right under this Part of this Act or has before the passing of this Act acquired a fishery or fishing right under the Liffey Reservoir Act, 1936 (No. 54 of 1936), the Board may, if they so think fit, preserve such fishery or fishing right, and for that purpose it shall be lawful for the Board to manage and conduct such fishery or fishing right and to do all such things, carry out all such transactions, and fulfil all such functions as shall be necessary or proper for or incidental or ancillary to such preservation, management, and conduct. | |
(2) Without prejudice to the generality of the powers conferred on the Board by the foregoing subsection of this section, the Board shall, for the purpose of preserving, managing, and conducting a fishery or fishing right in pursuance of the said subsection, have and may exercise the following powers, that is to say:— | ||
(a) the like powers in relation to the acquisition of land and rights over or in respect of land or water, the like powers of interference with land and rights over or in respect of land or water, and the like powers in relation to private roads, ways, and bridges, and artificial water-ways and water-courses as are conferred on them by Part II of this Act for the purpose of carrying out an approved scheme, and | ||
(b) the like powers of closing, diverting, removing, submerging, or otherwise interfering with public roads or bridges as are conferred on them by Part II of this Act for the purpose of carrying out an approved scheme but subject to the provisions contained in this Act in relation to the closing, diverting, removing, submergence of, or other interference with public roads and bridges by the Board, and | ||
(c) power, with the consent of the Minister, to demise by lease or let by way of licence the whole or any part of such fishery or fishing right to such persons, for such period, at such rent, and on such terms and conditions as the Board shall, with the consent aforesaid, think proper. | ||
(3) Section 17 of the Shannon Fisheries Act, 1935 (No. 4 of 1935), shall apply and have effect in respect of moneys received or expended by the Board in the performance of its powers under this section in like manner as it applies and has effect in relation to moneys received or expended by the Board in the performance of the duties mentioned in the said section 17 . |