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.
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No person, other than a person to whom subsection (2) applies, shall—
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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.]
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If any person contravenes subsection (1) he shall be guilty of an offence, …F5.