Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959

Power of Minister to take on lease fisheries for research purposes.

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16.(1) The Minister, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, may, for the purposes of any scheme of research into the life-history and habits of salmon or any freshwater fish and the economic conditions affecting the commercial development of fisheries, take on lease any fishery.

(2) The provisions of Chapter V of Part XII relating to the operation of vested fisheries shall apply in respect of any fishery leased by the Minister under this section.

(3) F17[]

Annotations

Amendments:

F17

Repealed (29.10.1980) by Fisheries Act 1980 (1/1980), s. 6(1) and sch. 1, S.I. No. 323 of 1980.

Modifications (not altering text):

C24

Functions under subs. (1) transferred and references to “Minister for Finance” and "Department of Finance" construed as Minister for and Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (20.09.2011) by Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) (No. 2) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 480 of 2011), arts. 2, 3(a), 4 and sch., in effect as per art. 1(2), subject to transitional provisions in arts. 5, 6, 7, 9.

2. (1) The administration and business in connection with the exercise, performance or execution of any functions transferred by this Order are transferred to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

(2) References to the Department of Finance contained in any Act or any instrument made thereunder and relating to any administration and business transferred by paragraph (1) shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

3. The functions conferred on the Minister for Finance by or under—

(a) the provisions of the enactments specified in the Schedule, and

are transferred to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

4. References to the Minister for Finance contained in any Act or instrument made under an Act and relating to any functions transferred by this Order shall, from the commencement of this Order, be construed as references to the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform.

Article 3(a)

SCHEDULE

Enactments

Number and Year

Short Title

Provision

(1)

(2)

(3)

No. 14 of 1959

Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959

Sections 7(1) and (3), 16(1), 45(2), 49(3)(b), (4)(a), (8), (10) and (12), 50(2) and (4), 62(2), 68(1)(b), 74(2), (5) and (6), 116(2)(b)(iii)(IV), 314(3) and (4), 317(2) and 319(1)(a)(iii)