Fisheries (Tagging and Logbook) (Amendment) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2002

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2002 No. 372

FISHERIES

Fisheries (Tagging and Logbook) (Amendment) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made

3rd December 2002

Coming into operation

1st January 2003

The Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 26(1) and 37(1) of the Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, with the approval of the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure(2), hereby makes the following Byelaws:

Citation and commencement

1.  These Byelaws may be cited as the Fisheries (Tagging and Logbook) (Amendment) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2002 and shall come into operation on 1st January 2003.

Amendment of the Fisheries (Tagging and Logbook) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2001

2.  The Fisheries (Tagging and Logbook) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2001(3) shall be amended as provided in Byelaws 3 to 5.

Interpretation

3.  In Byelaw 2(1)–

(a) for the definition of “game fishing rod licence” there shall be substituted the following definition–

““game fishing rod licence” means a game fishing rod licence, a concessionary season fishing rod licence, or a juvenile season fishing rod licence issued pursuant to the Fisheries Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 1997(4);”;

(b) in the definition of “logbook” for the word “one” there shall be substituted the word “three”;

(c) the definition of “one day angling logbook” shall be deleted; and

(d) after the definition of “tail tag” there shall be inserted the following definition–

““three day angling logbook” means a logbook as set out in the format prescribed in Schedule 1;”.

Issue of logbooks

4.  For Byelaw 7 there shall be substituted the following Byelaw–

“7.   The Board or an authorised agent shall issue–

(a) a salmon and sea trout angling logbook to the holder of a game fishing rod licence other than a three day game fishing rod licence;

(b) a three day angling logbook to the holder of a three day game fishing rod licence.”.

Format of three day angling logbook

5.  For Schedule 1 (one day angling logbook) there shall be substituted the following Schedule–

Byelaws 2 and 9

“SCHEDULE 1

THREE DAY ANGLING LOGBOOK

”

Sealed with the Common Seal of the Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland on 2nd December 2002.

L.S.

Dr. D. Roberts

Chairman

L.S.

K. A. Simpson

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 3rd December 2002.

L.S.

Nigel Carson

A senior officer of the

Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Byelaws.)

These Byelaws amend the Fisheries (Tagging and Logbook) Byelaws (Northern Ireland) 2001 by–

(a) amending the definition of “game fishing rod licence” so that it also includes concessionary and juvenile season fishing rod licences, deleting the definition of “one day angling logbook”, and inserting a definition of “three day angling logbook” in Byelaw 2(1) (Byelaw 3);

(b) replacing references to “one day angling logbook” with references to “three day angling logbook” (Byelaws 3 and 4); and

(c) replacing the format of the one day angling logbook prescribed in Schedule 1 with the format for a three day angling logbook (Byelaw 5).

(1)

1966 c. 17 (N.I.); section 26(1) was amended by Article 8(3) of the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 (S.I. 1991/1466 (N.I. 13)) and by section 5 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (2001 c. 4 (N.I.)); section 37 was substituted by section 1 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 (1968 c. 31 (N.I.)) and was amended by Article 9 of the Fisheries (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 1991 and by section 6 of the Fisheries (Amendment) Act (Northern Ireland) 2001

(2)

Functions transferred by virtue of S.R. 1999 No. 481 Article 3 and Schedule 1

(3)

S.R. 2001 No. 291

(4)

S.R. 1997 No. 425 as amended by S.R. 1999 No. 12, S.R. 1999 No. 488, S.R. 2000 No. 364, S.R. 2001 No. 433, S.R. 2002 No. 11, S.R. 2002 No. 274 and S.R. 2002 No. 371