Fisheries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1987

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Register of Sea Anglers.

20.—(1) Subject to subsections (3) and (4) of this section, there shall be deleted by each regional board from the Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers established and maintained by it by virtue of subsection (1) of section 58 of the Act of 1980 the names of every person who is not registered as a sea angler or is a person other than a sea angler to whom subsection (4) of the said section 58 relates and each such register shall be known as the “Register of Sea Anglers”.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1) of this section, the following provisions shall have effect:

(a) the amendment of subsection (1) of section 2 of the Act of 1980 by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers”:

“‘Register of Sea Anglers’ means a register to which section 58 (1) applies;”;

(b) the amendment of subsection (2) of section 12 of the Act of 1980 by the substitution in paragraphs (b) (ii) and (c) of “Register of Sea Anglers” for “Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers”;

(c) the amendment of subsection (1) (b) (i) of section 13 of the Act of 1980 by the substitution of “Register of Sea Anglers” for “Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers”;

(d) the amendment of section 58 of the Act of 1980 by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (2):

“(2A) Any person other than a sea angler who is registered in a register by virtue of subsection (4) of this section (being so registered before the commencement of section 20 of the Fisheries (Amendment) (No. 2) Act, 1987) may at any time by an application in writing to the regional board concerned apply to such board to re-register him as a sea angler and, on duly receiving an application under this subsection, that board shall allow the application and re-register him in the register maintained by it—

(a) where the application is received by that regional board within one month prior to an election of members of that board, with effect from the day following the election, and

(b) in every other case, with effect from the day the application is received by it.”;

(e) the amendment of subsection (1) of section 58 of the Act of 1980 by the deletion of “, and which is in this Act referred to,” and “Trout, Coarse Fish and”;

(f) the amendment of subsection (2) of the said section 58—

(i) in paragraph (a), by the deletion of all the words from “, and when applying for registration” down to and including the words “or as a sea angler”, and

(ii) in paragraph (b), by the substitution of the words “the regional board shall register the applicant as a sea angler” for all the words from “the regional board concerned shall—” down to the end of that paragraph;

(g) the deletion of subsection (3) of the said section 58;

(h) the amendment of subsection (4) of the said section 58 by the substitution in paragraphs (a) and (d) of “Register of Sea Anglers” for “Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers”;

(i) the amendment of subsection (6) of the said section 58 by the substitution of “Register of Sea Anglers” for “Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers”;

and the said subsections (1) and (2) of the said section 58, as so amended, are set out in paragraphs 1 and 2, respectively, of the Table to this section.

(3) Any person who, immediately before the coming into operation of this section, was registered in the Register of Trout, Coarse Fish and Sea Anglers and whose name was, by virtue of subsection (1) of this section, deleted from such register, may, by an application in writing and made so that it is received by the regional board concernedbefore the 31st day of the month of May following such coming into operation, apply to that board to re-register him and on duly receiving an application under this subsection the regional board concerned shall, subject to payment of the appropriate annual subscription under section 58 of the Act of 1980, allow the application and re-register him in the register maintained by it with effect from the date of such coming into operation.

(4) Where a person to whom subsection (3) of this section relates does not apply to be re-registered under that subsection but does pay to the regional board concerned the appropriate annual subscription as if he were registered as a sea angler paying that subscription under section 58 (2) (c) and that payment is received by that board before the day specified in the said subsection (3), then he shall be deemed to have duly applied for re-registration under that subsection and shall be re-registered accordingly.

TABLE

1. (1) Each regional board shall establish and maintain a register to be known as a “Register of Sea Anglers”.

2. (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.

(b) On receipt of an application for registration in the register, accompanied by the appropriate annual subscription, the regional board shall register the applicant as a sea angler.