Shannon Fisheries Act, 1935
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Appointment of ex-officio members of boards of conservators. |
12.—(1) Section 6 of the Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1848, as amended by section 7 of the Fisheries Act, 1925 (No. 32 of 1925), shall not apply in respect of any fishery for the time being included in the Shannon fisheries and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that— | |
(a) if and so long as the Board is the owner, lessee or occupier of a fishery which was on the 1st day of January, 1931, a several or exclusive fishery within the meaning of the said section 6 and was on that day valued under the Valuation Acts at not less than fifty pounds the Board shall be entitled to nominate one person to be an ex-officio member in respect of such fishery of the board of conservators of the district in which such fishery is situate, and | ||
(b) if and so long as the Board is the owner, lessee, or occupier of a number of fisheries situate in the same fishery district which were on the 1st day of January, 1931, several or exclusive fisheries within the meaning of the said section 6, and were on that date owned, held, or occupied by the same person, and were on the said date valued under the Valuation Acts at valuations amounting in the aggregate to not less than fifty pounds, the Board shall be entitled to nominate one person to be an ex-officio member in respect of such fisheries of the board of conservators of the district in which such fisheries are situate. | ||
(2) Where the Board is entitled under the foregoing sub-section of this section to nominate two or more ex-officio members of a board of conservators, the Board may, in lieu of nominating such two or more members, nominate one person only to be an ex-officio member of such board of conservators, and in such cases such one person shall have and may exercise at meetings of such board of conservators a number of votes equal to the number of ex-officio members of such board of conservators which the Board is for the time being entitled to nominate under the said foregoing sub-section. | ||
(3) A person nominated by the Board under this section to be an ex-officio member of a board of conservators shall, subject and without prejudice to the next foregoing sub-section of this section, have and may exercise as such member all the rights and privileges which are conferred by section 6 of the Fisheries (Ireland) Act, 1848, on a person who is an ex-officio member of a board of conservators under that section. |