Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959
Power of Minister to make oyster fishery orders.
256.—Subject to section 11 and to the provisions of this Chapter the Minister may make orders for the establishment or improvement and for the maintenance and regulation of an oyster fishery on F232[or above] the shore and bed of the sea or of an estuary or tidal river above or below or partly above and partly below low-water mark (which said shore and bed are in this Chapter referred to as the seashore), and including, if desirable, provisions for the constitution of a board or body corporate for the purpose of such order, on an application to the Minister by any person desirous of obtaining such an order.
Annotations
Amendments:
F232
Inserted (18.03.1980) by Fisheries Act 1980 (1/1980), s. 70(4), commenced on enactment.
F233
Repealed by Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1997 (23/1997), s. 5(6), not commenced as of date of revision.
Modifications (not altering text):
C166
Prospective affecting provision: section repealed by Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1997 (23/1997), s. 5(6), not commenced as of date of revision.
256.—F233[…]
C167
Application of section restricted (31.08.1983) by Fisheries Act 1980 (1/1980), s. 54(10)(h), S.I. No. 261 of 1983.
54.—…
(10) …
(h) The Minister shall not after the commencement of this section either grant an oyster bed (1959 Act) licence or make an oyster fishery (1959 Act) order and sections 245(1) and 256 of the Principal Act shall each be construed and have effect subject to the foregoing provisions of this paragraph.
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C168
Application of section extended (1.01.1963) by Fisheries (Amendment) Act 1962 (31/1962), s. 30(1), S.I. No. 216 of 1962.
Provision in relation to Moville Area.
30.—(1) Sections 102, 103 and 114 and Parts XIII to XVI (which provisions relate to sea fisheries and certain other matters) of the Principal Act shall (notwithstanding section 325 of that Act) extend to the Moville Area and, for the purpose of giving full effect to the said provisions, every other provision of the Principal Act or of this Act which is applicable in relation to any of the said provisions shall also extend to that Area.
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