Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959
Agents for issue of ordinary fishing licences.
70.—(1) F88[Inland Fisheries Ireland] may appoint such and so many persons as it thinks fit to be agents of F88[Inland Fisheries Ireland] for the issue of ordinary fishing licences, and every person so appointed by F88[Inland Fisheries Ireland] shall be an authorised agent of F88[Inland Fisheries Ireland] for that purpose.
(2) F88[Inland Fisheries Ireland] shall take from every person who is an authorised agent of F88[Inland Fisheries Ireland] adequate security for duly accounting for any licence duty paid to him and for the due performance of his duty, and the cost of any allowance to be made for the issue of licences shall be part of the expenses of F88[Inland Fisheries Ireland].
(3) Every authorised agent of F88[Inland Fisheries Ireland] shall furnish to F88[Inland Fisheries Ireland] an account of all licence duties received by him monthly or as often as it may require and shall set out in such account—
(a) the sums received by him for licences for each particular engine for taking fish, and
(b) the names and residences of the persons to whom licences were issued, and
(c) F89[…]
Annotations
Amendments:
F88
Substituted (1.07.2010) by Inland Fisheries Act 2010 (10/2010), s. 8(3)(a) and sch. 2 part 1 paras. (1), (2) item 10(a), (b), S.I. No. 262 of 2010.
F89
Repealed (29.10.1980) by Fisheries Act 1980 (1/1980), s. 6(1) and sch. 1, S.I. No. 323 of 1980.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):
C46
References in subss. (2), (3) to “regional board” construed (1.07.2010) as references to “IFI” by Inland Fisheries Act 2010 (10/2010), s. 8(3)(a) and sch. 2 part 1 paras. (1), (2), commenced on enactment. Note “board of conservators” previously construed (29.10.1980) as reference to “regional board”, see further E-note below.
Transfer of functions to IFI.
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(3) (a) The Acts specified in Schedule 2 are amended on the establishment day as indicated in that Schedule.
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SCHEDULE 2
Consequential Amendments of Certain Acts
Section 8
PART 1
Amendment of Fisheries (Consolidation) Act 1959
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(1) References to regional boards (as provided for by section 2 of Part 1 of the Fourth Schedule) in the provisions of the Principal Act specified in subparagraph (2) shall each be construed and have effect as if they were references to Inland Fisheries Ireland.
(2) The provisions of the Principal Act referred to in subparagraph (1) are the definition of “fishery rate” in section 3(1), sections 40(10) (as substituted by section 7 of the Act of 2000), 45(1), 49(5), 49(9), 55(2), 55(3), 55(4), 56, 57(2), 57(3), 59(1), 67(1), 67(8), 67(10), 70(2), 70(3), 77(4), 278, 291, 303(1) and 306(1).
Editorial Notes:
E105
Previous affecting provision: references in subss. (2), (3) to “board of conservators” construed (29.10.1980) as references to “regional board” by Fisheries Act 1980 (1/1980), s. 11(5) and sch. 4 part 1 paras. 2(a), (b); superseded (1.07.2010) as per C-note above.
E106
Previous affecting provision: subs. (1) amended (18.03.1980) by Fisheries Act 1980 (1/1980), s. 11(5) and sch. 4 part 1 para. 1(r), commenced on enactment; superseded (1.07.2010) as per F-note above.