http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1966/17/section/99Fisheries Act (Northern Ireland) 1966An Act to extend the functions of the Ministry of Agriculture in relation to fisheries and to make provision for the development and improvement of fisheries by, or with the assistance of, that Ministry; to establish the Fisheries Conservancy Board for Northern Ireland, and to define their functions; to provide for the transfer to that Board of the property, rights and liabilities of, and to dissolve, the existing boards of conservators; to consolidate with amendments the Fisheries Acts (Northern Ireland) 1842 to 1954 and certain other enactments relating to fisheries; otherwise to amend the law with respect to fisheries; and for purposes connected with those matters.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2021-04-29Expert Participation2020-12-31 PART VI991During the weekly close time—athe netting of the leader of every bag net used for catching salmon shall be raised and kept out of the water; andball other nets used as fixed engines for the taking of salmon or trout shall be wholly removed from the water.2If in respect of any bag net the provisions of subsection (1)( a), or if in respect of any other net to which subsection (1)( b) applies the provisions of subsection (1)( b), are not complied with, the occupier of that bag net or net shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding [ £500] or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment.3Nothing in this section shall be construed as rendering liable to any penalty a person who satisfies the court that he was prevented by floods, storm, or stress of weather from complying with subsection (1) during the continuance of that prevention.1981 NI 7