Fisheries (Amendment) Act, 1991
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Salmon rod (annual) district licences, juvenile licences and one-day licences. |
16.—(1) A salmon rod ordinary licence (to be known as a salmon rod (annual) district licence) shall on payment of the licence duty provided therefor in Part I of the Fourth Schedule to the Principal Act (as inserted by the Schedule to this Act) be made available for use in the fishery district in respect of which application for the licence is made and which is specified in the licence and being a fishery district in the fisheries region of the regional board by which it was issued. | |
(2) A salmon rod (annual) district licence shall operate to authorise the person named therein, but no other person, to use, during the period and in the fishery district specified therein, a salmon rod, subject to the provisions of the Principal Act and any instrument made thereunder. | ||
(3) Where a person applies to a regional board for the issue to him of a salmon rod (annual) ordinary licence and satisfies the board that he is for the time being under the age of 18 years and pays the licence duty provided therefor in Part I of the said Fourth Schedule, the board shall issue such licence (to be known as a salmon rod (annual) juvenile licence) to him. | ||
(4) Each regional board shall also make available a salmon rod (one-day) ordinary licence on payment of the licence duty provided therefor in Part I of the said Fourth Schedule. | ||
(5) The holder of a salmon rod (annual) ordinary licence or a composite freshwater angling ordinary licence for the year 1990 shall be entitled on application to be issued, subject to the provisions of this section, with a licence to which this section, other than subsection (4), applies free of charge for the year 1991. | ||
(6) The holder of a salmon rod (annual) ordinary licence or a composite freshwater angling ordinary licence for the years 1990 and 1991 who is issued with a licence free of charge under subsection (5) for the year 1991 shall, if the Minister in his discretion so prescribes, be refunded the duty paid for the former licence for 1991, subject to such conditions as he may prescribe. | ||
(7) The holder of a salmon rod (annual) ordinary licence or a composite freshwater angling ordinary licence for the year 1991, but not for the previous year, shall be entitled, on surrendering that licence, to be issued, subject to the provisions of this section, with a licence to which this section, other than subsection (4), applies for the year 1991 and shall, if the Minister in his discretion so prescribes, be refunded the difference between the duty for that licence and the duty for the surrendered licence, subject to such conditions as he may prescribe. |