Electricity (Supply) (Amendment) Act, 1945

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Construction of fishing weirs by the Board.

24.—(1) Whenever the Board acquires under this Part of this Act every fishery (if any) and every fishing right (if any) in a river, the Board may, with the consent of the Minister for Agriculture and notwithstanding anything contained in the Fisheries Acts, 1842 to 1944, construct in such river a fishing weir for the purposes of all or any of the fisheries (if any) and fishing rights (if any) so acquired, and may thereafter maintain the fishing weir so constructed.

(2) Whenever the Board acquires under or by virtue of this Act a fishing weir, the Board may, with the consent of the Minister for Agriculture and notwithstanding anything contained in the Fisheries Acts, 1842 to 1944, do either of the following things, that is to say:—

(a) maintain such fishing weir and, for the purposes of such maintenance, reconstruct or repair such fishing weir, or

(b) construct on the site of such fishing weir or on a different site a new fishing weir in lieu of the fishing weir so acquired and thereafter maintain such new fishing weir.