Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959
Power of persons interested in oyster beds to appoint water keepers.
276.—(1) Any proprietor of an oyster bed or an associated body of persons interested in the protection or improvement of an oyster fishery may, for the protection of such oyster fishery and for the due enforcement of the provisions of this Act and any bye-laws made thereunder, appoint any person to be a water keeper.
(2) The provisions of section 294 in relation to the appointment of water keepers shall apply in respect of the appointment of water keepers under this section.
(3) Every water keeper appointed under this section may, in relation to the oyster fishery for which he is appointed, exercise, so far as may be necessary for the protection of such oyster fishery and for the due enforcement of the provisions of this Act and any bye-laws made thereunder in relation to oyster fisheries, any of the powers conferred by this Act on a water keeper appointed under section 294.
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
C201
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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