PART IVPROTECTION OF FISHERIES

Obstructions to passage of fish

56Restrictions on the use of fishing engines and rods and lines at or in the vicinity of dams.

1

No person, other than a person to whom subsection (2) applies, shall—

F1a

use any fishing engine (other than a rod and line)F2 from any position on a dam or at any place withinF3 200 metres above or below any dam; [F1 or

b

use a rod and line from any position on or withinF3 5 metresF2 or such other distance as may be prescribed by F4regulations above or below any dam].

2

Subsection (1) shall not apply to any person who is for the time being the owner of a several fishery in any place referred to in that subsection, and who is a successor in title of any other person who had exercised in that place the right of taking fish during the period of twenty years immediately preceding 14th August 1850 [F1; and paragraph ( b) of that subsection shall not apply in any case or class of case in which it is excluded (either absolutely or upon the observance of prescribed conditions) by F4regulations.]

3

If any person contravenes subsection (1) he shall be guilty of an offence, …F5.