Fisheries (Consolidation) Act, 1959

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PART VIII.

Fixed Engines, Fishing Weirs, Fishing Mill Dams and Other Obstructions to the Passage of Fish.

Chapter I.

Prohibition of Fixed Engines, Fishing Weirs and Fishing Mill Dams with Certain Exceptions.

Penalty for using, etc. fixed engine for the capture of salmon not certificated under the Salmon Fishery (Ireland) Act, 1863.

97.—(1) No person shall fish with, make use of, or erect any fixed engine for the capture of salmon unless a certificate in regard to such fixed engine was granted under the Salmon Fishery (Ireland) Act, 1863, before the 31st day of December, 1923, and was subsisting unrevoked on that day.

(2) Every person who fishes with, makes use of, or erects any fixed engine for the capture of salmon in contravention of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds and a further fine not exceeding twenty pounds for every day during which such fixed engine is fished with, made use of, or erected.

(3) Where a person is convicted of an offence under this section, the fixed engine in respect of which the offence was committed shall, as a statutory consequence of conviction, stand forfeited.