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Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers.
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58.—(1) Each regional board shall establish and maintain a register to be known, and which is in this Act referred to, as a “Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers”.
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(2) (a) On payment of the appropriate annual subscription to a regional board a person shall be registered in accordance with paragraph (b) of this subsection in the register maintained by that board, and when applying for registration under this subsection the applicant shall, when making the application, specify in which of the following categories he wishes to be registered, namely, as a trout angler, or as a coarse fish angler or as a sea angler.
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(b) On receipt of an application for registration in the register, accompanied by the appropriate annual subscription, the regional board concerned shall—
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(i) in case the applicant specifies that he wishes to be registered as a trout angler, register him as such in the register,
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(ii) in case the applicant specifies that he wishes to be registered as a coarse fish angler, register him as such in the register,
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(iii) in case the applicant specifies that he wishes to be registered as a sea angler, register him as such in the register, and
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(iv) in case the applicant fails to comply with the requirement of paragraph (a) of this subsection to specify the category in which he wishes to be registered, register him in the register as non-voting.
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(c) Where on the 31st day of December in any year a person, other than a person entitled under subsection (4) of this section, is registered in a register he shall be entitled to remain so registered for the duration of the next following year if, but only if, before the day in that next following year which is the day for the time being fixed by the Minister under subsection (5) of this section he pays to the regional board by whom the register is maintained the appropriate annual subscription.
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(d) Where in any year a person who on the last preceding 31st day of December was registered in a register fails before the day in that year which is the day so fixed for the time being to pay the appropriate annual subscription, the regional board by whom the register is maintained shall forthwith remove his name from the register.
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(3) Any person who is registered in a register may, by an application in writing to and made so that it is received by the regional board concerned on a day in the month of January in any year, apply to such board to amend the register by changing him from the category in which he is then registered to another category to be specified in the application, and on duly receiving an application under this subsection a regional board shall allow the application and amend the register maintained by them accordingly.
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(4) (a) Subject to paragraph (d) of this subsection, a person who immediately before the dissolution thereof was a life member of the Trust shall on application to a regional board, and on making a declaration in a form approved of for the purposes of this subsection by the Minister, be registered by the board in the Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers maintained by the board.
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(b) A person who is registered in a register under paragraph (a) of this subsection may apply in writing to have his name removed from the register and on receipt of such an application the regional board concerned shall allow the application.
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(c) Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (2) of this section shall apply to applications under this subsection as they apply to applications under that subsection but subject to the following modification, namely, the requirements of those paragraphs relating to annual subscriptions shall be disregarded.
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(d) A person referred to in paragraph (a) of this subsection shall not be entitled to be registered by virtue of this subsection at any particular time in more than one Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers maintained under this Act.
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(5) The Minister may by regulations fix a day or days for the purposes of subsection (2) of this section and any such day may be so fixed in relation to—
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(a) one or more particular years, or
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(b) a particular year and the subsequent year thereafter, or
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(c) any year.
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(6) (a) References in this section to the appropriate annual subscription are references to an annual subscription of such amount as shall be fixed for the time being for the purposes of this section by the Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance.
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(b) In this section—
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“register”, except where the context otherwise requires, means the Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers maintained by a regional board;
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“registered” means registered in the register.
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(c) In this section and in the next following section of this Act
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“life member of the Trust” includes any person who the council of the Trust, pursuant to the Articles of Association of the Trust, distinguished as a donor member.
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