Fisheries (Amendment No. 2) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made2nd September 2002

Coming into operation1st October 2002

The Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 26(1), 37(1) and 70 of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 19661 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, with the approval of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure2, hereby makes the following Byelaws:

Citation and commencement1

These Byelaws may be cited as the Fisheries (Amendment No. 2) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 1st October 2002.

Amendment of the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 19972

The Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 19973 shall be amended as provided in Byelaws 3 to 7.

Issue of drift net licences

3

In Byelaw 8 for the words “Subject to Byelaws 9 and 10” there shall be substituted the words “Subject to Byelaws 9, 10 and 10A”.

4

After Byelaw 10 there shall be inserted the following Byelaw –

10A
The Board shall not issue a drift net licence to any person under Byelaws 8 to 10 in a case where a person who held a drift net licence has undertaken, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, to make no further applications for a fishing licence to use a drift net to fish for salmon.

Issue of tidal draft net licences5

For Byelaw 16 there shall be substituted the following Byelaw –

16
1
The maximum number of tidal draft net licences issued in any calendar year shall not exceed 2.
2
An application for such a licence shall be received on or before 1st March in the calendar year to which the licence is to relate.
3
Where an application for a tidal draft net licence is received from a person to whom such a licence was issued at any time during the period of 3 years ending on the last 31st December before the date of the receipt of the application, such an application shall, subject to paragraph (5), be deemed to have been received before an application received from any other person.
4
Where the number of applications for tidal draft net licences received on or before 1st March in any calendar year exceeds 2, the licences shall, subject to paragraphs (3) and (5), be issued according to the order in which applications for those licences were received.
5
Paragraphs (3) and (4) shall not apply to, or in relation to, an application from a person who has undertaken, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, to make no further applications for a fishing licence to use a tidal draft net to fish for salmon.

Revocation and issue of fishing licences6

In Byelaw 24 –

a

the existing provision shall be numbered as paragraph (1); and

b

after that paragraph there shall be added the following paragraph –

2
Subject to the provisions of these Byelaws, where, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, a person who holds a fishing licence consents to the revocation of the fishing licence and undertakes to make no further applications for a fishing licence of a particular class, the Board shall revoke that licence or (as the case may require) refuse to renew it and shall refuse to issue such person a fishing licence of the class which he has undertaken not to apply for.

Appeal to the Department against the refusal of the Board to issue or restore a fishing licence7

After Byelaw 29 there shall be inserted the following Byelaw –

29A
1
Byelaws 25 to 29 shall not apply where the licence-holder or applicant has, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, consented to the revocation of the licence or (as the case may be) undertaken not to make any further applications for a fishing licence of the class the issue or renewal of which has been applied for.
2
Byelaws 25 to 29 shall not apply where, by virtue of Byelaw 10A, the Board does not have the power to issue a drift net licence under Byelaws 8 to 10.

Sealed with the Common Seal of the Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland on 29th August 2002.

Dr. D. RobertsChairman

K. A. Simpson (Mrs.)Secretary

The Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure hereby approves the foregoing Byelaws.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on 2nd September 2002.

N. CarsonA senior officer of theDepartment of Culture, Arts and Leisure

(This note is not part of the Byelaws.)

These Byelaws amend the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997 by –

a

prohibiting the Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland (“the Board”) issuing a drift net licence in a case where a person who held a drift net licence has undertaken, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure (“the Department”), to make no further applications for a fishing licence to use a drift net to fish for salmon or sea trout (Byelaw 4);

b

reducing the maximum number of tidal draft net licences which may be issued in any calendar year from 6 to 2 (Byelaw 5);

c

by requiring the Board to revoke a fishing licence or to refuse to renew a fishing licence where, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, the person who held it consented to its revocation; the Board is also required not to issue a person a fishing licence of any class which he has undertaken not to apply for (Byelaw 6);

d

disapplying Byelaws 25 to 29 (appeals) where –

i

a person has, in consideration of compensation paid or payable by the Department, consented to the revocation of a licence or (as the case may be) undertaken not to make any further applications for a fishing licence of the class the issue or renewal of which has been applied for (Byelaw 7);

ii

the Board does not, by virtue of these Byelaws, have the power to issue a drift net licence (Byelaw 7).