Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959
F127[Certificate of fitness to hold a Part X licence.
158.— (1) Where a person who carries on or proposes to carry on the business of selling salmon, trout, eels or molluscan shellfish, or of exporting for sale salmon, trout, eels or molluscan shellfish in a particular Court District applies to a judge of the District Court for the time being assigned to that Court District for a certificate under this section, such judge shall, if satisfied that such person is a fit and proper person to hold a Part X licence, grant him a certificate in writing to that effect.
(2) A person making an application to a judge of the District Court for the grant by the District Court of a certificate under this section in relation to a salmon dealer's licence, eel dealer's licence or molluscan shellfish dealer's licence shall give notice in writing of the application to F128[Inland Fisheries Ireland], not less than fourteen days before the date of the hearing of the application and F128[Inland Fisheries Ireland] shall, through such of its officers as it shall nominate for the purpose, be entitled to appear in court and be heard on the hearing of the application.]
Annotations
Amendments:
F127
Substituted (1.08.1994) by Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1994 (23/1994), s. 20, S.I. No. 243 of 1994.
F128
Substituted (1.07.2010) by Inland Fisheries Act 2010 (10/2010), s. 8(3)(a) and sch. 2 part 1 paras. (1), (2) item 19, S.I. No. 262 of 2010.
Modifications (not altering text):
C109
Application of section restricted (30.06.1998) by Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1997 (23/1997), s. 79, S.I. No. 203 of 1998.
Restriction of application of Part X of Principal Act.
79.— Part X of the Principal Act shall not apply to fish produced pursuant to a licence.
Editorial Notes:
E191
Power pursuant to section exercised (1.01.1995) by Fisheries (Salmon, Eel and Molluscan Shellfish Dealers' Licences) Regulations 1994 (S.I. No. 462 of 1994), in effect as per reg. 2.
E192
Power pursuant to section exercised (1.01.1995) by Licensed Salmon, Eel and Molluscan Shellfish Dealers' Register Regulations 1994 (S.I. No. 461 of 1994), in effect as per reg. 1(2).
E193
Previous affecting provision: power pursuant to section exercised (1.01.1995) by Salmon, Eel and Molluscan Shellfish Dealers' Licences (Alteration of Duties) Order 1994 (S.I. No. 463 of 1994), in effect as per art. 2; revoked (1.01.2004) by Fisheries (Miscellaneous Commercial Licences) (Alteration of Duties) Order 2003 (S.I. No. 703 of 2003), art. 7, in effect as per art. 2.